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This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

This work of folk art was produced by Gregory Warmack but the artifacts cemented in place are communal.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

Amazing collection of over 2,000 live birds from around the world, many of which are rare or endangered.

This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.

A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

The first documented commercial gold find in the United States.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.