North Carolina Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities and Other Offbeat Stuff [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

This comprehensive, authoritative, and highly entertaining volume is your perfect guide to the wildest, wackiest, and most outrageous people, places, and things North Carolina has to offer. In "North Carolina Curiosities", you'll discover Korner's Folly, a disorientating seven-level, twenty-two room house full of secret passages and trap-doors (see left), meet vipers, cobras, mambas and more at Cape Fear Serpentarium - home to the collection of the world's most venomous snakes, and wonder at the "aesthetically challenged" holiday decorations unabashedly displayed at the Aluminium Tree and Ornament Museum. If you are tired of wandering around museums and other bog-standard tourist traps, the this guide to the unusual side life will be your invaluable, and unforgettable, companion.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Tar Heel State has to offer!

• Visit the remains of a mysterious shipwreck; the sulfur springs said to promote good health; and the country’s very first gold-nugget doorstop.
• Learn how dozens of dachshunds dominate a town on Wiener Dog Day; how Christmas in July is a hot holiday to celebrate; and how locals make melodic mouth music at the International Whistlers Convention
• Meet an out-of-this-world “ufologist”; a quirky exotic-animal-collecting rancher; and a real-life pirate and his homemade ship—definitely a treasure to behold!

Whether you’re a born-and-raised North Carolinian or a recent transplant, authors Jon Elliston and Kent Priestley will have you laughing out loud as they introduce you to the neighbors you never knew you had and take you to places you never knew existed—right in your own backyard.