Places Sonj Wants to Go

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

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

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

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

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

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

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

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

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

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.

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

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

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

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.