Places lakupper13 Wants to Go

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

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

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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

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

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

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

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

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

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?

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

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.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.