Places veronicajaennking Wants to Go

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

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

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

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

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

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The late, disgraced President's embalmed remains displayed for all to see… theoretically.

These tiered rice paddies were carved into the hillsides 2,000 years ago.

This burial cave houses around 100 ancient coffins, neatly stacked to form a massive wall.

The cemetery was built for the Spanish colonial elite, but its most famous residents were all buried in unmarked graves.