Places mbrowne108 Wants to Go

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

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 site in Caldwell County is the location where the Cherokee and Catawba are said to have entered a peace treaty.

Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

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

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

A curious art piece along a lovely biking trail marks several historic floods via a series of colorful poles that represent floodwater heights.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

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

You might want to bring a rain jacket to this travertine triple waterfall.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.