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

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

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

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

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

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

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

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

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

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

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

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

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

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.