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

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

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

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

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

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

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

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.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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

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

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

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

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.