Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.

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

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

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

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

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.

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

A curious art piece along a lovely biking trail marks several historic floods via a series of colorful poles that represent floodwater heights.

A mini-Stonehenge in the corner of the North Carolina state capitol grounds.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.