Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This enigmatic building features numerous architectural styles.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.