Places leblancjt Wants to Go

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

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

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

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

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

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

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.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.