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: Sweet Home Biblical Scenes
Angier: Backyard School Bell Collection
Angier: Marvin Johnson's Gourd Collection
Asheville: ATOM: Aluminum Tree and Ornament Museum
Asheville: Large Iron
Asheville: Muffler Man, Indian - Chief Willy
Bailey: Country Doctor Museum
Bear Grass: Henry Cowan Sculptures
Beech Mountain: Land of Oz
Belhaven: Belhaven Memorial Museum
Blowing Rock: Blowing Rock - Flying Indian Legend
Blowing Rock: Mystery Hill
Blowing Rock: Tweetsie Railroad
Brevard: White Squirrel Festival
Bryson City: Automotive Riverbank Preservation Wall
Bryson City: Road to Nowhere
Bunnlevel: Hattadare Indian Nation
Burlington: Auto Parts Sculpture
Burlington: Milk Carton
Bynum: Clyde Jones' Critter Crossing
Cameron: Art Farm - Painted Buildings
Chadbourn: Giant Smoking Cigarette
Chapel Hill: Crook's Corner Pig
Charlotte: Billy Graham Library - Journey of Faith
Charlotte: Dairy Queen Sign
Charlotte: Hilton Sisters Siamese Twins Grave
Charlotte: Metalmorphosis - Giant Head
Charlotte: Wanted: Musically inclined Muffler Man
Cherokee: 25-ft. tall Indian - Muffler Man
Cherokee: Chief Saunooke's Bear Park
Cherokee: Indian Chiefs of Cherokee
Cherokee: Mac's Indian Village
Cherokee: Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Cherokee: Santa's Land Theme Park
Chimney Rock: Chimney Rock
Concord: Cushman Motorscooter Museum
Cullowhee: Chief Henry's Sign Preserved at Mountain Heritage Center
Durham: Old Brontosaurus, New Dino Trail
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: Puncheon Camp Creek Ranch
Fayetteville: Big Ape
Fayetteville: Big Milk Carton
Fayetteville: Eiffel Tower
Fayetteville: Fiberglass Animal Park
Fayetteville: Ghost Tower, Poe Houses, Graveyard
Fayetteville: Iron Mike - Airborne Museum
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: Scottish Tartan Museum
Franklin: Wilderness Taxidermy and Wildlife Museum
Frisco: Outer Banks UFO
Garner: White Deer, Famous Albino
Garysburg: Q. J. Stephenson's Occoneechee Trapper's Lodge
Greensboro: Mechanical Santa Claus
Halifax: Grave of the only Masonic Grand Master of America
Harpers Crossroads: Devil's Tramping Ground
Harris Crossroads: Roadside Rock Grave of Senator Jeffries
Hatteras: Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
Havelock: Harrier Jump Jet on a Stick
Hendersonville: Harry's Grill and Piggy's Ice
Hendersonville: Heaviest Twins Largest Granite Tombstone
Henderson: Giant Concrete Legs
Hickory: Hickory Sinkhole
High Point: World's Largest Chest of Drawers
Highlands: Bridal Veil Falls
Hillsborough: Daniel Boone - Pioneer Giant
Hillsborough: Large Chairs
Hillsborough: Oconeechee Chief Statue
Holden Beach: Mary's Gone Wild - Tree House Art
Holly Ridge: Souvenir Shop Gator
Huntersville: Duke Power's EnergyExplorium
Jamestown: World's Largest Highboy Chest
Kannapolis: Dale Earnhardt statue
Kenly: Goon with a Top Hat
Kernersville: Korner's Folly
Kinston: Big Digestive System
Kinston: Confederate Ironclads: C.S.S. Neuse and Neuse II
Kure Beach: Memorial to a Bunker-Dwelling, Mysteriously-Dying Hermit
Laurinburg: Grave of Spaghetti, the Carny Mummy
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: Giant knight wielding battle axe
Manson: Soul City - Unrealized Utopia
Micaville: Odd Church Sign
Mocksville: Daniel Boone's Mother and Father's Grave
Mooresville: Moose Statue
Morganton: Brown Mountain Lights
Mount Airy: Metal Sign Man
Mount Airy: Andy Griffith Museum, Chang and Eng
Mount Airy: Sleep in Andy Griffith's Boyhood Home
Mt. Airy: Andy Griffith TV Town of Mayberry
Murfreesboro: Jefcoat Museum of Americana
Murphy: Olympic Bomber captured here
Murphy: World's Largest Ten Commandments
Nags Head: Castle Buried in "East Coast's Tallest Sand Dune"
New Bern: Birthplace of Pepsi
New Bern: Stuffed Head of Firehorse Fred
New Bern: Tom Haywood's Self-Kicking Machine
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
Point Harbor: World's Largest Hammock
Poplar Branch: Digger's Dungeon - Home of Grave Digger
Prospect Hill: Shangri-La Stone Village
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: Huge Smokey Bear Statue
Raleigh: Muffler Man
Raleigh: Self Kicking Machine #2
Raleigh: Smiley Face Water Tower
Raleigh: Statue of Andy and Opie
Raleigh: Talking Transparent Woman and Walk-In Brain
Raleigh: Tee & Eff, the Tastee-Freez Twins
Randleman: Richard Petty Bronze Statue
Roanoke Rapids: Daniel Boone with Oil Drum Fez
Rockingham: World's Largest Strawberry
Rocky Mount: Bunyan Muffler Man [formerly Stan the Tire Man]
Rocky Mount: Giant Spider Art
Rocky Mount: Head in a Tree
Rocky Mount: Second Hardee's
Rocky Mount: Uniroyal Gal
Rose Hill: World's Largest Frying Pan
Rural Hall: Crying Tire Baby
Salisbury: Grave of the Foot of James A. Reid
Saluda: Train Graveyard
Siler City: Aunt Bea's House
Smithfield: Ava Gardner Museum
Smithfield: Shadow Hawk - Backyard Western Town
Smithfield: Snowball Building
Sneads Ferry: Dr. Rootbeer's Hall of Foam
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
Thomasville: World's Largest Duncan Phyfe Chair
Thurmond: Trading Up Churches
Toluca: Yard Protest for Guardrail
Topsail Island: Operation Bumblebee Towers
Trust: St. Jude Tiny Church
Wake Forest: "Paint The Town"
Washington: Our Family Motor Parts Family
Waxhaw: Museum of the Alphabet
Wendell: Pioneer sculpture?
Westminster: Knight in Shining Armor
White Plains: Chang and Eng's Grave
Whittier: Elvis Room with Jacuzzi
Wilmington: Boss, Captain Ellerbrock's Dog
Wilmington: Tote-Em-In Zoo
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: Shell-shaped Gas Station
Winston-Salem: The Big Coffee Pot
Zebulon: Baseball Water Tower

Gone But Not Forgotten

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

Asheville: Indian Muffler Man
Cherokee: Chief Henry, World's Most Photographed Indian
Cherokee: Snakes Alive
Gerton: Moonshine Junction - Albino Bats
Halifax: Yogi Bear Graveyard - Gone

Hillsborough: Replica Indian Village - Gone
Mt Pleasant: Buffalo Ranch - Gone
Prospect Hill: White Rock Service Station - Gone

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