Places sadbread99 Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

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