Places spocksackmary Wants to Go

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

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

The McCandless Collection preserves one of the region's most distinctive collections of rare Mopar vehicles, historic race cars, and vintage automobilia celebrating American automotive heritage.

A remarkable headstone said to be a gift from Daniel Boone.

This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

These tree-filled acres are also filled with history, hiking and a celebration of Appalachian crafts.

An elephant is carved onto the gravestone of a man who was crushed by one.

Below this enormous headstone lie Billy and Benny McCrary, better known as the "McGuire Twins."

This steam locomotive served as both an interesting static display and unique playground equipment since 1959.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

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

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

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