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The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

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

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

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

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

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

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

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.