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A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

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

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

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

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

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

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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.

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

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

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.

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

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