Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near North Carolina

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

A once abandoned Oz mountaintop theme park, refurbished by locals to open to the public only a few weekends a year.
~13 miles from Blowing Rock.

Three 5,000-gallon milk tanks at a cheese factory resemble cows, thanks to some creative augmentation.
~22 miles from Blowing Rock.

Circus elephant Big Mary killed a trainer, and was publicly hanged for it.
~42 miles from Blowing Rock.

The Mountain Music Museum ennobles northeast Tennessee as the place where hillbilly music was first put on record. Moved across the state line from Virginia in late 2017.
~58 miles from Blowing Rock.

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