North Carolina

12 years ago By Adam David Gibbons

Blackbeard's Terror

Recent treasures recovered from Blackbeard's flagship reveal a new picture of the fearsome pirate

Browse through some of the 300,000 artifacts recovered from Blackbeard's wreck, the 18th-century frigate Queen Anne's Revenge

Beaufort Historic Site features two-acres of restored homes and shops that explore daily life in an 18th-century port town

Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright proved the viability of manned flight in the skies above North Carolina's sandy shore

At the Wright Brothers National Memorial view a reproduction of the same unpowered glider flown by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1902

At Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, a National Memorial park commemorates the Wright brothers' successful flights