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These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

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

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

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

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

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

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.