The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

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

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

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

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

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

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

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

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

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

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

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.