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