A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

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

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

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

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

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

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.