Places phildzielski Wants to Go

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

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

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

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

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

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

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

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.