Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

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

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

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

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

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

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

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

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

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

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

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

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

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

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