North Carolina

• The Venus Fly Trap, is only found in two American states, NC and SC, but is native to Hampstead, NC.

• The first mini-golf, or Putt Putt course, was built in Fayetteville.

• The First English Child Born in the Colonies Was Born in North Carolina, Virginia Dare was born on August 18, 1587

• The islands off our coast practically have their own language. The High Tider dialect, or “Hoi Toider,” is only spoken in North Carolina’s Outer Banks and Pamlico Sound regions.

• It Is Home to the Oldest Mountains in North America. The Uwharrie Mountains in central North Carolina are 500 million years old!


• Elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields.

• You can't collect your own reward money.

• Rollerblading in the sun is illegal.

• It's illegal to practice as a professional psychic or fortune teller, but amateurs are okay.

• Any man and woman falsely claiming to be husband and wife in any hotel, public inn or boardinghouse is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

• Barber - Fights between cats and dogs are prohibited.

• Asheville - it is illegal to sneeze on city streets.

• Raleigh - before a man asks for a woman's hand in marriage, he must be "inspected by all the barnyard animals on the young woman's family's property, to ensure a harmonious farm life."

• Nags Head - you can be fined for singing out of tune for more than ninety seconds.

• Kill Devil Hills - You may not ride a bicycle without having both your hands on the handle bars.


• Sylva - At the American Museum of the House Cat in Sylva, thousands of artifacts pay homage to loveable, yarn-chasing cats.

• Wilmington - Walk through various attractions and truly bizarre displays – like a unicorn horn or Houdini’s ouija board – at Wilmington’s Museum of the Bizarre.

• Charlotte - Cold Blooded & Bizarre is essentially a neighborhood zoo full of creepy crawlers.

• Angier - Mary and Marvin Johnson Gourd Museum - Marvin Johnson and his wife cultivated more than 200 different kinds of gourds and collected gourds from around the world.

• Near Siler City - Devil's Tramping Ground - Legend has it that in this circle of bare earth about 20 feet across. His “tramping” supposedly kills off vegetation and causes wildlife to keep their distance.