20 places found

Wilmington, North Carolina
The Battleship North Carolina, commissioned in 1941 and now a museum ship on the Cape Fear River at Wilmington, took part in every major…

Wilmington, North Carolina
The Bellamy Mansion on Market Street in Wilmington is a grand Italianate and Greek Revival house built in 1859 for a wealthy physician and…

Four Oaks, North Carolina
Bentonville Battlefield was the site of the largest battle fought in North Carolina, March 19 to 21, 1865, in the last months of the Civil…

Asheville, North Carolina
The Biltmore Estate in Asheville is a 250-room French Renaissance-style chateau completed in 1895 for George W. Vanderbilt and still owned…

Morganton, North Carolina
The Brown Mountain Lights are mysterious glowing orbs and streaks reported over Brown Mountain and the Linville Gorge in Burke County for…

Southport, North Carolina
The Brunswick Inn in Southport is a historic waterfront inn said to be haunted by Tony, a harpist who played for guests while they danced…

Buxton, North Carolina
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, completed in 1870 and the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States, guards the Graveyard of the…

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Carolina Inn on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill opened in 1924 and has been named among America's most…

Waynesville, North Carolina
Cataloochee was a farming and apple-growing valley of about 1,200 people in 1910, and families were displaced when the national park was…

Charlotte, North Carolina
The Duke Mansion in Charlotte's Myers Park is a historic estate that now operates as a boutique hotel and wedding venue. North Carolina…

Kure Beach, North Carolina
Fort Fisher is said to be haunted by General W.H.C. Whiting, the fort's commander, whose apparition is described with his distinctive…

Beaufort, North Carolina
The Hammock House in Beaufort is traditionally called the oldest house in town, dating to the early 1700s, and legend says the pirate…

Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The Historic Brookstown Inn in Winston-Salem occupies a brick mill that was built in the 1830s as a cotton mill. Visit North Carolina and…

Jamestown, North Carolina
Lydia's Bridge is a railroad underpass over East Main Street in Jamestown near Greensboro, and the spirit of a young woman called Lydia is…

Raleigh, North Carolina
The Mordecai House in Mordecai Historic Park is a plantation house in Raleigh, home to the Mordecai family for generations and where Andrew…

Raleigh, North Carolina
The North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, a Greek Revival building completed in 1840, is said to be haunted by a former night watchman…

Wilkesboro, North Carolina
The Old Wilkes Jail in Wilkesboro is a 19th-century brick jail, now a museum of the Wilkes Heritage Museum, and is where Tom Dula,…

Asheville, North Carolina
The Omni Grove Park Inn, a stone resort built in 1913 on the side of Sunset Mountain, is best known for the Pink Lady, a young woman in a…

Ocracoke, North Carolina
Portsmouth was a lightering port on Core Banks founded in 1753 that peaked at 685 people in 1860 and shrank after the Civil War and a…

Ocracoke, North Carolina
Teach's Hole is the anchorage near Ocracoke Inlet where the pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, was killed in a battle with Royal…