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This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

The upstairs museum delves into the Lawson family murder, whose eight victims were embalmed at this store in 1929.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.