Mount Airy, North Carolina
The Grave of Chang and Eng Bunker
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
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Mount Airy, North Carolina
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
Brevard, North Carolina
This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.
Mount Gilead, North Carolina
This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.
Davidson, North Carolina
The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.
Concord, North Carolina
The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.
Sanford, North Carolina
An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.
Burnsville, North Carolina
The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.
Cameron, North Carolina
The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.
Waxhaw, North Carolina
Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.
Durham, North Carolina
This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.
Sylva, North Carolina
The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.
Prospect Hill, North Carolina
A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.
Sanford, North Carolina
Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Collettsville, 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.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Asheville, North Carolina
This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.
Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Claremont, North Carolina
A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.
Bear Creek, North Carolina
A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.