North Carolina Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in North Carolina. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Mount Airy
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Angier: Backyard School Bell Collection
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Angier: Marvin Johnson's Gourd Collection
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Arden: Grass Smiley Face
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Asheville: Asheville Pinball Museum
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Asheville: Asheville Radio Museum
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Asheville: Biltmore: World's Largest House
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Asheville: Chief Willy: Golden Muffler Man
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Asheville: Hillbilly Moose
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Asheville: Large Iron
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Asheville: London Double Decker Bus
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Asheville: Metal Man Riding a Pig-Dog
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Asheville: Mountaineer Inn Sign
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Asheville: O. Henry Office Memorial
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Asheville: The Odditorium: Freak Bar
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Aulander: Jet on a Stick
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Aurora: Fossil Museum and Downtown Dig Pit
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Bailey: Country Doctor Museum
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Bath: Landlocked Lighthouse
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Bear Grass: Big Standing Bear with Fangs
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Bear Grass: Henry Cowan Sculptures
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Beaufort: Grave of the Rum Keg Girl
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Beaufort: Memorial to Doomed Space Shuttle Astronaut
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Beaufort: Shuttle Astronaut Mini-Museum: Space Tire
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Beaufort: Statue of Blackbeard the Pirate
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Beech Mountain: Land of Oz
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Belhaven: Belhaven Memorial Museum
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Belhaven: Little Eva's Choo-Choo Tombstone
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Bentonville: Defender of the Southland Statue
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Bladenboro: Largest (Real) Tire in the World
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Blowing Rock: Blowing Rock: Floating Indian
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Blowing Rock: Mystery Hill
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Blowing Rock: Tweetsie Railroad
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Bolton: Boo-Boo Bear Statues
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Bolton: Uniroyal Gals at Grahamland
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Boone: Mountain Man Statue
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Bostic: The Bostic Lincoln
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Brasstown: Home of the Possum Drop
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Brevard: ATOM: Aluminum Tree and Ornament Museum
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Brevard: Mysteriously Vanished Conestee
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Brevard: White Squirrel Festival
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Bryson City: Automotive Riverbank Preservation Wall
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Bryson City: Clingmans Dome
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Bryson City: Kayak Ranch
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Bryson City: Road to Nowhere
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Bryson City: Warrior Motel: Big Indian Sign
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Bunnlevel: Hattadare Indian Nation
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Burlington: 36-Foot-Tall Stainless Steel Double Helix
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Burlington: Auto Parts Sculpture
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Buxton: America's Tallest Lighthouse - Climb It
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Buxton: British Cemetery on U.S. Soil
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Calvander: Hartleyhenge
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Carbonton: Old Carbonton Dam: Center of North Carolina
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Carolina Beach: Venus Flytrap Nature Trail
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Cataloochee: Bigfoot Statue
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Catawba: Pepsi Mural
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Chapel Hill: Giant Sundial
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Chapel Hill: Man Who Put Chapters in the Bible
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Chapel Hill: Pig on a Pole
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Charlotte: Big Business Bulls
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Charlotte: Billy Graham Library: Talking Robot Cow
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Charlotte: Birthplace of Billy Graham
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Charlotte: Brick Kids - Life is an Open Book
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Charlotte: Disco Chicken
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Charlotte: Eskimo Dairy Queen Sign
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Charlotte: Fountain of Big Spitting Fish
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Charlotte: Giant Hand
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Charlotte: Grave of Man Crushed by Elephant
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Charlotte: Hilton Sisters Siamese Twins Grave
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Charlotte: Metalmorphosis: Giant Head
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Charlotte: Musical Parking Garage
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Charlotte: NASCAR Hall of Fame
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Charlotte: Old Man Traffic: Hugh McManaway
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Charlotte: Produce Clock
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Charlotte: Quill Pen and the Writer's Desk
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Charlotte: Tall Stacks of Big Bronze Books
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Charlotte: Unloved MLK Statue
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Cherokee: 25-Foot Tall Indian - Muffler Man
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Cherokee: Cherokee Bear Zoo
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Cherokee: Cherokee: Tourists and Indians
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Cherokee: Mac's Indian Village Cabins
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Cherokee: Museum of the Cherokee Indian
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Cherokee: Peter Toth Giant Indian Head
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Cherokee: Pose with Indians - and Bill the Buffalo
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Cherokee: Santa's Land Theme Park
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Cherokee: The Cherokee Trader
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Cherokee: Tinkerbell Motel Sign
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Cherokee: Tiny Elvis Museum
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Cherokee: Wigwam Motel
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Chimney Rock: Chimney Rock
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Chocowinity: Big Yogi Bear
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Clayton: Policeman-Ghost Made of Rocks
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Collettsville: House of Mugs
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Columbia: Animatronic Hunter Jim
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Columbia: Sea Creatures Made of Rusty Junk
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Columbus: House of Flags Museum
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Cullowhee: Judaculla Rock
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Davidson: Homeless Jesus
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Deals Gap: Tail of the Dragon
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Denver: Black Widow Spider of Stainless Steel
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Dillsboro: The Fugitive Movie Bus and Train Wreck
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Duck: Pink Shark
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Dunn: Inventor of the Power Chord
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Durham: Bronze Camel with Famous Scientist
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Durham: Gene Dillard Mosaic House
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Durham: Major: Good Luck Bull Statue
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Durham: Mercury-Redstone Rocket Replica
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Durham: Metal Elephant
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Durham: Mexican Restaurant With Cow on Roof
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Durham: Old Brontosaurus, New Dino Trail
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Durham: Rainbow Scissors
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Durham: Tobacco Museum: Farmer Robot
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Durham: Tooth Fairy Bull
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Durham: Tuba Museum
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East Lake: World's Largest Replica of World's Largest Lighthouse
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Eden: Milk Carton on a Pole
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Edneyville: Bunyan Muffler Man
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Edneyville: Indian Muffler Man
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Edneyville: Old Pioneer Statue
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Edneyville: Puncheon Camp Creek Ranch
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Ellerbe: Andre the Giant Exhibit
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Ellerbe: World's Largest Strawberry
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Eureka: Marker: Atom Bombs Dropped Here
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Fayetteville: Airborne and Special Operations Museum
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Fayetteville: Eiffel Tower
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Fayetteville: Iron Mike Statue
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Fayetteville: Marker: Babe Ruth's First Home Run
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Fayetteville: Special Forces K9 Dog Memorial
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Fayetteville: U.S. Arsenal Ghost Tower
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Ferguson: Graves of Tom "Dooley" Dula and Victim Laura Foster
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Flat Rock: Devil's Headstone
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Fort Liberty: Barney the Bear
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Fountain: Lester Gay's Whirligigs
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Franklin: Ruby City Museum
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Franklin: Scottish Tartans Museum
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Frisco: The Cora Witch Tree
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Fuquay Varina: Ben Harris Sculptures
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Garland: Mini Church and Mini Mobile Home
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Garner: White Deer, Famous Albino
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Garysburg: Q. J. Stephenson's Occoneechee Trapper's Lodge
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Germanton: Pigfoot: Bigfoot Walking a Pig
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Gibsonville: Tiny Church, Log Cabin Style
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Granite Falls: Soft Drink Machine Museum
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Greensboro: "Hercules of the Revolution" Monument
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Greensboro: Burger Robot With Plasma Cannon
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Greensboro: Cup of Freedom
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Greensboro: Elsewhere Museum
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Greensboro: Historic Civil Rights Lunch Counter
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Greensboro: Stone O Henry Book
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Greenville: Cemetery In Mall Parking Lot
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Greenville: Shopping Center Pirate
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Halifax: Grave of the Only Masonic Grand Master of America
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Hamlet: John Coltrane Mural
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Hamlet: Trains!
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Hampstead: Emmett Sniff's Concrete Sculptures
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Hampstead: Shark
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Harpers Crossroads: Devil's Tramping Ground
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Harris Crossroads: Roadside Rock Grave of Senator Jeffreys
- Hatteras: Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
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Havelock: Harrier Jump Jet on a Stick
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Haw River: Metal Family with Old Tractor
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Hendersonville: Ferris Wheel of Steel Fabrication
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Hendersonville: Harry's Grill and Piggy's Ice
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Hendersonville: Heaviest Twins Largest Granite Tombstone
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Hendersonville: John Deere Tractor On a Silo
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Hendersonville: Wireman
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Henderson: Giant Legs of Ricky Pearce
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Hertford: Catfish Hunter Museum
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Hickory: Deserted Village: Hunger Games Location
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Hickory: Hunger Games: Henry River Mill Village
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Hiddenite: Only Emerald Mine Open to Public
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High Point: Metal Atlas Holds Giant Globe
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High Point: Natuzzi Ship Building
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High Point: World's Largest Chest of Drawers
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Highlands: Bridal Veil Falls
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Hillsborough: Big Chairs
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Hot Springs: Paint Rock
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Huntersville: Duke Energy's EnergyExplorium
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Jacksonville: Beruit Bombing and Grenada War Memorial
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Jamestown: Lydia's Bridge
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Jamestown: World's Largest Highboy
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Kannapolis: Dale Earnhardt Hometown Hero Statue
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Kenly: Goon with a Top Hat
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Kenly: Kenly 95 Truck Stop Lighthouse
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Kernersville: Korner's Folly
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Kill Devil Hills: Backyard Pirate Giant
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Kill Devil Hills: Wright Brothers First Flight
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King: Giant Milkshake
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Kinston: Big Digestive System
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Kinston: Confederate Ironclads: Neuse and Neuse II
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Kinston: Marker: Birth of Funk
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Kinston: Singing Cockatoo, Cave in Basement
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Kitty Hawk: Wright Brother's Garage Monument
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Kure Beach: Memorial to a Bunker-Dwelling, Mysteriously-Dying Hermit
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Kure Beach: North Carolina Military History Museum
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Lake Junaluska: Statue of Junaluska, Savior of Andrew Jackson
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Lake Junaluska: World Methodist Museum
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Laurel Springs: Abandoned Jail and Wedding Chapel
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Laurinburg: Grave of Spaghetti, the Carny Mummy
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Lenoir: The Witches' Keyhole
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Lexington: Boone's Cave Park
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Lincolnton: Children's Shoe House
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Linville: Mile-High Swinging Bridge
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Linwood: Daniel Boone - Pioneer Giant
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Littleton: Cryptozoology and Paranormal Museum
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Littleton: Rock Garden of America
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Lizard Lick: Lizard Lick ATM
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Love Valley: Town With No Cars, Only Horses
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Lucama: Vollis Simpson Whirligigs: Original Location
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Lumberton: Church with Angel Wings
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Maggie Valley: Big Red Rocker
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Maggie Valley: Caged Monument of Important Rocks
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Maggie Valley: Indian Death Tiki of Awesomeness
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Maggie Valley: Most Photographed View in the Smokies
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Maggie Valley: Wheels Through Time
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Manson: Soul City - Unrealized Utopia
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Marion: Linville Caverns
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Matthews: Unloved Butler Bulldog
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Midland: Reed Gold Mine
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Miller's Creek: Igloo Sandwich Shop
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Mocksville: Hurseys Sculpture Park
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Mooresville: Dale Earnhardt's "Garage Mahal"
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Mooresville: Moose Statue
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Morehead City: Head of Woo Woo Harker
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Morehead City: King Neptune
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Morehead City: Marlin Statue
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Morganton: Alien Body
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Morganton: Brown Mountain Lights
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Mount Airy: Andy Griffith Museum
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Mount Airy: Andy Griffith TV Town of Mayberry
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Mount Airy: Andy and Opie Statues
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Mount Airy: Aunt Bee Motel Room Shrine
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Mount Airy: Chang and Eng, Famous Siamese Twins
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Mount Airy: Five Faces of Andy Mural
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Mount Airy: Floyd's City Barber Shop
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Mount Airy: Metal Sign Man
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Mount Airy: Sleep in Andy Griffith's Boyhood Home
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Mount Airy: Snappy Lunch
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Mount Airy: Wally's Service Station and Mayberry Courthouse
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Mount Airy: Whittling Wall: Brick People
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Mount Airy: World's Largest Granite Quarry
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Mount Olive: Pickled Products Mural
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Mount Ulla: Big Milk Carton
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Murfreesboro: Jefcoat Museum of Americana
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Murphy: The Moon-Eyed People
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Murphy: World's Largest Ten Commandments
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Nags Head: Castle Buried in "East Coast's Tallest Sand Dune"
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Nags Head: Galaxy Golf
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Nags Head: Jurassic Putt - Dinosaur
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Nags Head: Nags Head Nag
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Nags Head: World Record Largest Blue Marlin
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Nashville: Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken Statues
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New Bern: Bears - Community Art
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New Bern: Birthplace of Pepsi
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New Bern: Medieval Swiss Bears of City Hall
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New Bern: Stuffed Head of Firehorse Fred
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Newton Grove: Tombstone in the Middle of a Cotton Field
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Newton: PEZ and World's Fair Collections
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Oak City: Church Dood Close Due To Rarture
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Oak Island: Wreck of the Mary E. Morris
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Ocracoke: British Cemetery on U.S. Soil
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Old Fort: Andrews Geyser
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Old Fort: Arrowhead Monument
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Philadelphus: Grave of Virginia Dare
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Pikeville: Church Cruise Missile
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Pikeville: Dinosaur Skeleton Sculptures
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Pittsboro: Big Chair
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Pittsboro: Clyde Jones' Critter Crossing
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Pittsboro: Longhorn Steer Statue
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Plymouth: Civil War Ironclad - CSS Albemarle
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Poplar Branch: Digger's Dungeon - Home of Grave Digger
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Prospect Hill: Shangri-La Stone Village
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Raleigh: Art Trail: Sensory Deprivation, Vollis Whirligig
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Raleigh: Big Acorn
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Raleigh: Birth Kitchen of Andrew Johnson
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Raleigh: Gotno Farm Dog
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Raleigh: Human Body Themed Playground
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Raleigh: Muffler Man: Giant Decorator Man
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Raleigh: Roman General George Washington
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Raleigh: Self-Kicking Booth
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Raleigh: Statue of Andy and Opie
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Raleigh: The Daily Planet: Giant Earth Lookalike
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Randleman: Richard Petty Bronze Statue
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Ridgecrest: Billy Graham Statue
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Rockwell: Tiger World
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Rocky Mount: Bunyan Muffler Man
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Rocky Mount: Uniroyal Gal
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Rose Hill: World's Largest Frying Pan
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Rougemont: Dukes of Hazzard Museum
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Salisbury: Fame Holds Dying Rebel
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Salisbury: Shake Hands with George Washington
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Salisbury: The Foot of James A. Reid
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Salvo: Tiny Post Office
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Sandy Ridge: Tin Man
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Slate Mountain: Hillside of Concrete Statues
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Smithfield: Ava Gardner Museum
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Smithfield: Snowball Building
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Sneads Ferry: Giant Shark
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Southern Pines: Taxidermy Hall of Fame of North Carolina Creation Museum
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Southport: Graves of the Gentleman Giant, Singing Ghost Tony
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Spencer: NC Transportation Museum
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St Pauls: Colorful Metal Sculptures
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Stedman: Blues Brothers in a Cage
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Supply: Fort Apache
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Supply: Mary's Gone Wild
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Surf City: Souvenir Shop Gator
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Sylva: American Museum of the House Cat
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Sylva: License Plate Building
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Tabor City: Newsboy Statue
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Thomasville: World's Largest Duncan Phyfe Chair
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Thurmond: Trading Up Churches
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Topsail Beach: Missiles and More Museum
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Trust: St. Jude Tiny Church
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Tryon: Morris the Wooden Toy Horse
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Tryon: Wavy Keyboard Statue of Nina Simone
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Tuckerdale: Wilburn Waters Monument: Killed 120 Bears
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Washington: Downtown Crabs
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Waxhaw: Museum of the Alphabet
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Waxhaw: Museum of the Waxhaws and Andrew Jackson
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Waxhaw: President Jackson Born Here, Maybe
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Waynesville: Metal String And Banjo Players
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Waynesville: Monument to Last Shot of the Civil War
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Weeksville: Old Naval Blimp Airdock
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Welcome: Earnhardt Cars at RCR Racing Museum
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Weldon: Rocky the Giant Rockfish
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Wendell: Hydrocephalic Daniel Boone
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Wendell: Mural: World's Largest Tobacco Worm
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Wendell: Transformer Tractor
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West Jefferson: Big Milk Tank Cows
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White Plains: Chang and Eng's Grave
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Whiteville: Grave of Siamese Twins Mille Christine McCoy
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Whittier: Elvis Room with Jacuzzi
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Wilmington: Battleship North Carolina
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Wilmington: Boss, Captain Ellerbrock's Dog
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Wilmington: Elvis Theme Barber Shop
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Wilmington: Museum of the Bizarre
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Wilmington: Propane Tank Peace Sign
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Wilmington: Tregembo Animal Park (Tote-Em-In Zoo)
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Wilmington: World's Largest Seahawk
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Wilson: Freeman Round House and African American Museum
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Wilson: Muffler Man - White's Tire #2
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Wilson: Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park
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Wilson: World's Tallest Replica of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
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Winston-Salem: First Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Location
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Winston-Salem: Memory Wall of Mr. Imagination
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Winston-Salem: Periodic Picnic Table
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Winston-Salem: Reynolds Building, Precursor to Empire State Building
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Winston-Salem: Seashell Gas Station
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Winston-Salem: The Big Coffee Pot
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Winston-Salem: Winston the Steakhouse Bull
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Zebulon: Baseball Water Tower
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Zebulon: Big Mercury Cougar
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Albemarle: Sweet Home Biblical Scenes
- Asheville: Dino Kinetics
- Asheville: Giant Animatronic Jenny Lind
- Bat Cave: Big Henry - Rooster
- Charlotte: Miracle on the Hudson Jet
- Cherokee: Chief Henry Profile Sign
- Cherokee: Chief Henry, World's Most Photographed Indian
- Cherokee: Chief Saunooke's Bear Park
- Cherokee: Indian Chiefs of Cherokee
- Cherokee: Snakes Alive
- Concord: Cushman Motorscooter Museum
- Durham: Catsburg Store
- Durham: Concert Piano on a Pole
- Edneyville: Pose with the Original Carolina Hillbilly
- Fayetteville: Big Ape
- Franklin: Down Memory Lane Toy Museum
- Franklin: Wilderness Taxidermy and Wildlife Museum
- Franklin: World's Largest Bed And Quilt
- Frisco: Frisco Futuro House
- Gerton: Moonshine Junction - Albino Bats
- Greenville: Gas Station Infested with Pirates
- Halifax: Yogi Bear Graveyard
- Hendersonville: Steel Tree, Mistaken for Dead Tree
- High Point: Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Mural
- Hillsborough: Daniel Boone - Pioneer Giant
- Hillsborough: Oconeechee Chief Statue
- Hillsborough: Replica Indian Village
- Maggie Valley: Ghost Town in the Sky
- Mount Pleasant: Buffalo Ranch
- Murphy: Large Green Moose
- New Bern: Tom Haywood's Self-Kicking Machine
- Ocracoke: Teach's Hole - Blackbeard Exhibit and Pyrate Specialty Shoppe
- Point Harbor: World's Largest Hammock
- Prospect Hill: White Rock Service Station
- Raleigh: Gotno Farm
- Raleigh: Huge Smokey Bear Statue
- Raleigh: Statue of First Rebel Killed in the Civil War
- Raleigh: Two-Headed Car
- Raleigh: Women of the Confederacy: a Mom-ument
- Roanoke Rapids: Daniel Boone with Oil Drum Fez
- Rutherfordton: Ghostly Pizza Guy Statue
- Saluda: Train Graveyard
- Smithfield: Shadowhawk - Backyard Western Town
- Sneads Ferry: Dr. Rootbeer's Hall of Foam
- Spruce Pine: Freeman's Animal Park
- Toluca: Yard Protest for Guardrail
- Washington: Our Family Motor Parts Family
- Wilmington: Muffler Man
- Wilson: Muffler Man
- Wilson: Worrell's Nautical Oddities