North Carolina
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TV Treasure: Goober’s Bronzed Beanie
Mount Airy - If you made a list of iconic props from classic 1960s TV sitcoms — the genie bottle from I Dream of Jeannie, the shoe phone from Get Smart — then somewhere on it would be the Jughead-style beanie worn by Goober on The Andy Griffith Show. Full story
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Featured Attractions
Shell-shaped Gas Station
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
A bright yellow seashell once serviced North Carolina's gas guzzlers.
World's Largest Chest of Drawers
High Point, North Carolina
This furniture capital landmark isn't actually the largest bureau in town....
World's Largest Ten Commandments
Murphy, North Carolina
00-ft. wide, built by the Church of God of Prophecy at Fields of the Wood in 1945.
Belhaven Memorial Museum
Belhaven, North Carolina
Filled with junk, freaks in jars, and fleas in formal dress.
Marvin Johnson's Gourd Museum
Angier, North Carolina
The late Marvin Johnson hoists one of his favorite gourds; a portrait of himself feeding his pet alligator a hot dog.
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Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Angier: Gourd Museum [tips]
- Bailey: Country Doctor Museum [tips]
- Beech Mountain: Land of Oz [tips]
- Belhaven: Belhaven Memorial Museum
- Bunnlevel: Hattadare Indian Village
- Blowing Rock: Mystery Hill [Mystery Spots] [tips]
- Brevard: White Squirrel Town and Festival
- Buxton: UFO house [tips]
- Bynum: Clyde Jones' Critter Crossing [tips]
- Charlotte: Siamese twin Hilton sisters grave [tips]
- Cherokee: Bear Pits
- Cherokee: Indians of Summer
- Cherokee: Mac's Indian Village [tips]
- Cherokee: Santa's Land [tips]
- Croatan: Self-Kicking Machine [tips]
- Durham: Tobacco Museum [tips]
- Fountain: Lester Gay's Whirligigs [tips]
- Franklin: Scottish Tartan Museum [tips]
- Garysburg: Occoneechee Trapper's Lodge [tips]
- Hendersonville: Minibike-riding Heaviest Twin grave [tips]
- High Point: World's Largest Chest of Drawers, Bureaus of Tourism
- Kenley: Tastee Freez Twins
- Kure Beach: Fort Fisher Hermit
- Lucama: Vollis Simpson's Whirligig Farm [tips]
- Manson: Soul City [tips]
- Mt. Airy: Andy Griffith Museum [tips]
- Murphy: World's Largest 10 Commandments, Fields of the Wood
- Murfreesboro: Jefcoat Museum of Americana [tips]
- New Bern: Firehorse Fred
- New Bern: Self Kicking Machine [tips]
- Prospect Hill: Shangri-La Miniature Village
- Raleigh: Transparent woman, walk-thru brain [tips]
- Roanoke Rapids: Daniel Boone w/Fez [tips]
- Rocky Mount: Bikini-clad Uniroyal Gal [tips]
- Rose Hill: "World's Largest" Frying Pan [tips]
- Southern Pines: Creationist taxidermy museum [tips]
- Thomasville: World's Largest Duncan Phyfe Chair
- White Plains: Chang and Eng's Grave
- Wilmington: Boss, a Noble Dog
- Wilson: Replica of World's Largest Lighthouse [tips]
- Winston-Salem: Shell-Shaped Gas Station [tips]
- Winston-Salem, Old Salem: Oldest Coffee Pot [tips]
