Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

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

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

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

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

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

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

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.