Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near North Carolina

While in North Carolina, you might enjoy a visit to:

More shakers than you can shake a shaker at. 20,000 pairs collected by archaeologist Andrea Ludden. Shakers shaped like skulls, witches, tombstones, toilets, human feet!
~20 miles from Cherokee.

The Life of Christ has been reborn as a waxy tourist attraction.
~20 miles from Cherokee.

But not forbidden to you. This show cave was used as a hideout to make moonshine until 1943, which perhaps explains its name.
~30 miles from Cherokee.

At last count, Three Bears had increased to five bears. Watch them eat while camera-carrying humans stand on the edge of their pit and yell, "Hey, BEAR!"
~27 miles from Cherokee.

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