Places jorrick Wants to Go

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

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

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

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

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

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.