Mount Airy, North Carolina
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Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.
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Mount Airy, North Carolina
Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."
Madison, North Carolina
The upstairs museum delves into the Lawson family murder, whose eight victims were embalmed at this store in 1929.
Gibsonville, North Carolina
A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.
Prospect Hill, North Carolina
A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.
Rougemont, North Carolina
A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.
Norlina, North Carolina
The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.
Littleton, North Carolina
Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.
Southport, North Carolina
This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.
Jacksonville, North Carolina
A section of this cemetery is dedicated to the lives lost from years of exposure to contaminated water.
Ayden, North Carolina
This family-run joint has been going whole hog for nearly 100 years.
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
A vast collection of everyday items amassed by one man.
Beaufort, North Carolina
A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.
Beaufort, North Carolina
Burial site more than 300 years old.
Newport, North Carolina
This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.
New Bern, North Carolina
This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.
New Bern, North Carolina
The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.
Belhaven, North Carolina
A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.
Creswell, North Carolina
This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.
Ocracoke, North Carolina
A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.
Ocracoke, North Carolina
The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.
Hatteras, North Carolina
The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.