Places rleloudis Wants to Go

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

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

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

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

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

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

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

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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

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

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

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