Places istnbl Wants to Go

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

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

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

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

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

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

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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

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

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

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

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

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

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

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.