This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

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

The large vessel is known as world’s only full-scale replica of a Confederate ironclad.

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

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.

Visit the site where the original Krispy Kreme doughnut was made back in 1937.

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

The oldest church building in the state.

A mini-Stonehenge in the corner of the North Carolina state capitol grounds.

Marvel at 400-year-old trees in one of the last remaining old-growth Appalachian forests.

One of the last remaining pedestrian suspension bridges in North Carolina.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

Saunter along the banks of one of North Carolina’s wildest rivers

This family-owned diner has been slinging chili dogs since 1940.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

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

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

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