The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

In a resort town where the real Alice spent her summer holidays, iconic characters create a curious trail.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

The world's oldest model village.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

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

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

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

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

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

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

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

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

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.