This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

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

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

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

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

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

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

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

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

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

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

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

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 folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.