Places remcrae Wants to Go

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

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

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

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 scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

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

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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 cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

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

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

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

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.