Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near North Carolina

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

Diinner theater performance of high seas clashes between two ships featuring swashbuckling pirates, voluptuous mermaids, and a projected avatar of Dolly herself.
~19 miles from Sunset Beach.

Similar to the millennial mega-ferris wheel in London, SkyWheel is almost 19 stories tall, with 42 air-conditioned gondolas and no lap bars.
~25 miles from Sunset Beach.

15 feet in diameter, weighs two tons, can cook 365 chickens at a time. Sheltered under its own special gazebo with a large sign and explanatory plaque.
~71 miles from Sunset Beach.

For 62 years after he was killed in a fight, carnival work Cancetto "Spaghetti" Farmica hung on the wall of a local mortuary, collateral for his unpaid funeral bill. Finally put to rest in the ground in 1972.
~83 miles from Sunset Beach.

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