Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

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

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

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

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

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

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

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

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

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

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.