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

The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

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

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

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

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

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

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

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

Delve into the world of auto racing at this museum with dozens of cars and racing memorabilia.

A collection of abstract sculptures by a former tobacco auctioneer turned outsider artist.

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

Amphibious mascots display a quirkier side to this luxury hotel's rich history.

Every Friday night, Appalachian string-bands turn this country store and soda fountain into a raucous jamboree.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.