Places shullbrendand Wants to Go

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

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

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

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

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

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

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

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

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

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

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

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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

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

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

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