Places grantavery Wants to Go

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

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

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

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

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

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

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

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

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

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

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

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

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.