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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

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.

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan was destroyed twice and reconstructed to near original condition.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.