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A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

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

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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

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

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

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

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

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

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.