North Carolina Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball North Carolina places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Albemarle: Every Day Was Christmas - Religious Folk Art
Angier: Backyard School Bell Collection
Angier: Marvin Johnson's Gourd Collection
Arden: Grass Smiley Face
Asheville: ATOM: Aluminum Tree and Ornament Museum
Asheville: Biltmore Estate - World's Largest Privately Owned Home
Asheville: Chief Pontiac - Indian Muffler Man
Asheville: Large Iron
Asheville: London Double Decker Bus
Asheville: Metal Man Riding a Pig-Dog
Asheville: Mountaineer Inn Sign
Asheville: Muffler Man, Indian - Chief Willy
Aulander: Jet on a Stick
Bailey: Country Doctor Museum: Stonewall's Arm Saw
Bat Cave: Big Henry - Rooster
Bear Grass: Henry Cowan Sculptures
Beaufort: Grave of Rum Keg Girl, Standing British Officer
Beech Mountain: Land of Oz
Belhaven: Belhaven Memorial Museum
Belhaven: Little Eva's Little Choo-Choo Tombstone
Bladenboro: Largest (Real) Tire in the World
Blowing Rock: Blowing Rock - Flying Indian Legend
Blowing Rock: Mystery Hill
Blowing Rock: Tweetsie Railroad
Boone: Mountain Man Statue
Bostic: Birthplace of Lincoln, Bastard
Brevard: White Squirrel Festival
Bryson City: Automotive Riverbank Preservation Wall
Bryson City: Road to Nowhere
Bunnlevel: Hattadare Indian Nation
Burlington: 36-Foot-Tall Stainless Steel Double Helix
Burlington: Auto Parts Sculpture
Buxton: America's Tallest Lighthouse - Climb It
Buxton: British Cemetery on U.S. Soil #2
Bynum: Clyde Jones' Critter Crossing
Cameron: Art Farm - Painted Buildings
Chapel Hill: Crook's Corner Pig
Chapel Hill: Giant Sundial
Charlotte: Big Business Bulls
Charlotte: Billy Graham Library - Journey of Faith
Charlotte: Brick Kids - Life is an Open Book
Charlotte: Disco Chicken
Charlotte: Eskimo Dairy Queen Sign
Charlotte: Hilton Sisters Siamese Twins Grave
Charlotte: Metalmorphosis - Giant Head
Charlotte: Miracle on the Hudson Jet
Charlotte: Old Man Traffic
Charlotte: Unloved MLK Statue
Cherokee: 25-ft. tall Indian - Muffler Man
Cherokee: Chief Saunooke's Bear Park - Temporarily Closed
Cherokee: Indian Chiefs of Cherokee
Cherokee: Mac's Indian Village
Cherokee: Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Cherokee: Santa's Land Theme Park
Cherokee: Tinkerbell Motel Sign
Chimney Rock: Chimney Rock
Clayton: Policeman-Ghost Made of Rocks
Columbia: Animatronic Hunter Jim
Concord: Cushman Motorscooter Museum
Cullowhee: Chief Henry's Sign Preserved at Mountain Heritage Center
Cullowhee: Judaculla Rock
Denver: Big Black Widow Spider of Stainless Steel
Durham: Bronze Camel-With Famous Scientist
Durham: Mercury-Redstone Rocket Replica
Durham: Old Brontosaurus, New Dino Trail
Durham: Rainbow Scissors
Durham: Tobacco Museum: Farmer Robot
East Lake: World's Largest Replica of World's Largest Lighthouse
Edneyville: Bunyan Muffler Man
Edneyville: Indian Muffler Man
Edneyville: Old Pioneer Statue
Edneyville: Pose with the Original Carolina Hillbilly
Edneyville: Puncheon Camp Creek Ranch
Ellerbe: World's Largest Strawberry
Fayetteville: Eiffel Tower
Fayetteville: Ghost Tower, Poe Houses, Graveyard
Fayetteville: Iron Mike Statue
Ferguson: Graves of Tom "Dooley" Dula and Victim Laura Foster
Flat Rock: Devil's Headstone
Fort Bragg: Barney the Bear
Fort Bragg: Special Forces Museum and Statue
Fountain: Lester Gay's Whirligigs
Franklin: Ruby City Gem Museum
Franklin: Scottish Tartan Museum
Franklin: Wilderness Taxidermy and Wildlife Museum
Frisco: Outer Banks UFO House
Garner: White Deer, Famous Albino
Garysburg: Q. J. Stephenson's Occoneechee Trapper's Lodge
Gibsonville: Tiny Church, Log Cabin Style
Goldsboro: Muffler Man - In Storage
Greensboro: "Hercules of the Revolution" Monument
Greensboro: Mechanical Santa Claus
Greenville: Concrete-Covered Cemetery in a Mall Parking Lot
Halifax: Grave of the Only Masonic Grand Master of America
Harpers Crossroads: Devil's Tramping Ground
Harris Crossroads: Roadside Rock Grave of Senator Jeffreys
Hatteras: Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
Havelock: Harrier Jump Jet on a Stick
Hendersonville: Bears - Community Art Project
Hendersonville: Goat Pen Velociraptor
Hendersonville: Harry's Grill and Piggy's Ice
Hendersonville: Heaviest Twins Largest Granite Tombstone
Hendersonville: John Deere Tractor On a Silo
Hendersonville: Steel Tree, Mistaken for Dead Tree
Henderson: Giant Concrete Legs
Hickory: Hickory Sinkhole
High Point: Natuzzi Ship Building
High Point: World's Largest Chest of Drawers
Highlands: Bridal Veil Falls - Drive Under It
Hillsborough: Big Chairs
Hillsborough: Daniel Boone - Pioneer Giant
Holden Beach: Mary's Gone Wild - Tree House Art
Huntersville: Duke Power's EnergyExplorium
Jamestown: World's Largest Highboy Chest
Kannapolis: Dale Earnhardt Hometown Hero Statue
Kenly: Goon with a Top Hat
Kenly: Kenly 95 Truck Stop Lighthouse

Kernersville: Korner's Folly
King: Giant Milkshake
Kinston: Big Digestive System
Kinston: Confederate Ironclads: C.S.S. Neuse and Neuse II
Kure Beach: Memorial to a Bunker-Dwelling, Mysteriously-Dying Hermit
Lake Junaluska: Statue of Junaluska, Savior of Andrew Jackson
Lake Junaluska: World Methodist Museum
Laurinburg: Grave of Spaghetti, the Carny Mummy
Lenoir: The Witches' Keyhole
Lincolnton: Children's Shoe House
Linwood: Daniel Boone - Pioneer Giant
Littleton: Rock Garden of America
Louisburg: Friendly Downtown Louisburg
Lucama: Vollis Simpson's Whirligigs
Maggie Valley: Ghost Town in the Sky
Maggie Valley: Wheels Through Time
Manson: Soul City - Unrealized Utopia
Marion: Linville Caverns
Micaville: Odd Church Sign
Midland: Reed Gold Mine
Miller's Creek: Igloo Sandwich Shop
Mocksville: Daniel Boone's Mother and Father's Grave
Mooresville: Moose Statue
Morehead City: King Neptune
Morganton: Brown Mountain Lights
Mount Airy: Andy Griffith Museum, Chang and Eng
Mount Airy: Andy Griffith TV Town of Mayberry
Mount Airy: Floyd’s City Barber Shop
Mount Airy: Sleep in Andy Griffith's Boyhood Home
Mount Airy: Wally's Service Station and Mayberry Courthouse
Mount Airy: World's Largest Granite Quarry
Murfreesboro: Jefcoat Museum of Americana
Murphy: Large Green Moose
Murphy: Olympic Bomber captured here
Murphy: World's Largest Ten Commandments
Nags Head: Castle Buried in "East Coast's Tallest Sand Dune"
Nags Head: Jurassic Putt - Dinosaur
New Bern: Birthplace of Pepsi
New Bern: Stuffed Head of Firehorse Fred
New Bern: Tom Haywood's Self-Kicking Machine
Newton Grove: Tombstone in the Middle of a Cotton Field
Ocracoke: British Cemetery on US Soil
Ocracoke: Teach's Hole - Blackbeard Exhibit and Pyrate Specialty Shoppe
Old Fort: Andrews Geyser
Old Fort: Arrowhead Monument
Plymouth: Civil War Ironclad - CSS Albemarle
Poplar Branch: Digger's Dungeon - Home of Grave Digger
Prospect Hill: Shangri-La Stone Village
Raleigh: Art Trail: Sensory Deprivation, Vollis Whirligig
Raleigh: Big Acorn
Raleigh: Bzzt! Don't touch the whirlygig!
Raleigh: Giant Ice Cream Bowl with Spoon
Raleigh: Gotno Farm
Raleigh: Haunted Capitol Building
Raleigh: Muffler Man
Raleigh: Self Kicking Machine #2
Raleigh: Statue of Andy and Opie
Raleigh: Statue of First Rebel Killed in the Civil War
Raleigh: Talking Transparent Woman and Walk-In Brain
Raleigh: Tee & Eff, the Tastee-Freez Twins
Raleigh: The Daily Planet: Giant Earth Lookalike
Randleman: Richard Petty Bronze Statue
Roanoke Rapids: Daniel Boone with Oil Drum Fez
Rocky Mount: Bunyan Muffler Man
Rocky Mount: Head in a Tree
Rocky Mount: Second Hardee's
Rocky Mount: Uniroyal Gal
Rocky Mount: Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken Statues
Rose Hill: World's Largest Frying Pan
Rougemont: Dukes of Hazzard Museum - Coming Soon
Rural Hall: Crying Tire Baby
Rutherfordton: Custom Pizza Guy Statue
Salisbury: Grave of the Foot of James A. Reid
Salvo: Tiny Post Office
Siler City: Aunt Bea's House
Slate Mountain: Hillside of Concrete Statues
Smithfield: Ava Gardner Museum
Smithfield: Shadow Hawk - Backyard Western Town
Smithfield: Snowball Building
Sneads Ferry: Giant Shark
Southern Pines: Taxidermy Hall of Fame of North Carolina Creation Museum
Southport: Graves of the Gentleman Giant, Singing Ghost Tony
Spruce Pine: Freeman's Animal Park - Vague Recollections
Surf City: Souvenir Shop Gator
Swansboro: Decades Behind and Proud of It
Thomasville: World's Largest Duncan Phyfe Chair
Thurmond: Trading Up Churches
Topsail Island: Operation Bumblebee Towers
Trust: St. Jude Tiny Church
Tryon: Morris the Wooden Toy Horse
Tryon: Wavy Keyboard Statue of Nina Simone
Wake Forest: "Paint The Town"
Waxhaw: Museum of the Alphabet
Waynesville: Monument to Last Shot of the Civil War
Weeksville: Old Naval Blimp Airdock
Wendell: Hydrocephalic Daniel Boone
West Jefferson: Big Milk Tank Cows
Westminster: Knight in Shining Armor
White Plains: Chang and Eng's Grave
Whittier: Elvis Room with Jacuzzi
Wilmington: Boss, Captain Ellerbrock's Dog
Wilmington: Tregembo Animal Park (Tote-Em-In Zoo)
Wilmington: World's Largest Seahawk
Wilson: Fiberglass Dinosaur
Wilson: Freeman Round House
Wilson: Golf Ball Water Tower
Wilson: Muffler Man - White's Tire #1
Wilson: Muffler Man - White's Tire #2
Wilson: World's Tallest Replica of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Winston-Salem: Bull Statue at Thrif-Way Meats
Winston-Salem: Shell-shaped Gas Station
Winston-Salem: Steakhouse Bull at Old Staley's Grill - Temporarily Gone
Winston-Salem: The Big Coffee Pot
Zebulon: Baseball Water Tower
Zebulon: Big Mercury Cougar

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Albemarle: Sweet Home Biblical Scenes
Asheville: Dino Kinetics - Gone
Burlington: Milk Carton - Gone
Cherokee: Chief Henry, World's Most Photographed Indian
Cherokee: Snakes Alive
Durham: Big Pianos - Music Makes You Smarter
Fayetteville: Big Ape - Gone
Gerton: Moonshine Junction - Albino Bats
Halifax: Yogi Bear Graveyard - Gone
Hillsborough: Oconeechee Chief Statue - Gone
Hillsborough: Replica Indian Village - Gone

Mount Airy: Metal Sign Man
Mount Pleasant: Buffalo Ranch - Gone
Point Harbor: World's Largest Hammock
Prospect Hill: White Rock Service Station - Gone
Raleigh: Huge Smokey Bear Statue
Saluda: Train Graveyard - Gone
Sneads Ferry: Dr. Rootbeer's Hall of Foam - Closed
Toluca: Yard Protest for Guardrail - Gone
Washington: Our Family Motor Parts Family - Gone

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