Places GeneralWaffles Wants to Go

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

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

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

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

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

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

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

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

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

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

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.