Greater mount airy sports hall of fame is a small concrete monument dedicated to the small town of…read moremount airy aka Mayberry athletes. My buddy and I was exploring the historic Main Street area checking out all the Mayberry sites when we came across this piece of public art. Overall Mayberry has a surprisingly vast public art scene and it added to the fun in exploring this historic little town.

Hubby and I wanted to explore Mt Airy on this lovely Monday early morning. Tickets are 10.00 a…read moreadult and plenty of parking around the museum. There are two small section one upstairs and the down stairs. I would say this museum is on the smaller side. We were done within 25 mins. It's nice to see things from the show since I did grow up watching this over at my grand parents house.

Perhaps the number one thing to do in Mount Airy and we really enjoyed it. Less than an hour to…read moretour through this small museum, watching the clips from movies and TV shows, viewing the exhibits and reading through the explanations of all the memorabilia. Lots to see! I think it's best to come early just after they open as it's not a very large space and it does get crowded. And don't miss the Siamese Twins Museum across the street - there is a combined admission. [Review 1760 of 2024 - 3680 in North Carolina - 22783 overall]

The whittling wall is a really cool and creative public art sculpture located in mount airy North…read moreCarolina aka Mayberry. My buddy and I was exploring the historic Main Street area when we seen this Brick wall with realistic looking brick colored figures carved into them. This piece was equally creepy and impressive. Overall this is one of the most unique, cooler pieces of public arts I've ever came across and will be very memorable For me.

This was an awesome experience to see you while we were in mayberrry. We are walking around, trying…read moreto find a different landmarks in public. Hartman came across the Wailing Wall. It was a nice addition to the mayberrry City.

Let freedom ring is a wonderful And well done monument to…read morehonor our soldiers located in historic downtown Mount Airy North Carolina aka Mayberry. The sculpture features concrete background, a small water fountain and some flags. My buddy and I was exploring the historic Main Street area checking out all the Mayberry sites when we came across this piece of public art. Overall Mayberry has a surprisingly vast public art scene and it added to the fun in exploring this historic little town.

The road on this side was closed as the bridge over the Dan River is being rebuilt or upgraded but…read moreparking over in Moratock Park worked fine and I could walk across without any trouble then follow the short path down to the furnace. You'd never guess from the road that a massive nineteenth century blast furnace is tucked back in these trees and it really would be a shame to miss it. The stone stack was built in 1843 as part of the old Moratock Iron Works, and it produced pig iron for decades before the Civil War. It was later used to supply iron for the Confederacy until Stoneman's Raid came through in 1865 and shut the operation down. Standing in front of it now, more than 150 years later, the scale and the condition of the structure are impressive, especially considering how exposed it is. It feels like one of those places you stumble onto and immediately wonder how many people drive past without ever knowing it's there. [Review 630 of 2026 - 4718 in North Carolina - 25811 overall]

Built in 1843 to smelt iron for munitions. A cool piece of history located beside of the Dan river…read morein Danbury.

Brinegar Cabin is located on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Doughton Park. I originally expected just a…read morequick photo stop, but I was in for a wonderful treat and got a fascinating glimpse into early Appalachian life. The cabin has its own dedicated parking lot, and then you need to walk down a path to reach the structure, which is steep and uneven in some places. Martin Brinegar originally purchased the land in 1876 for $200 and married Caroline two years later. It took him about five years to clear the rocky hillside and build this hand-hewn white pine log homestead, hand-shaving cedar shakes for the roof, stacking two fieldstone chimneys, and building a drystone retaining wall. The couple went on to successfully raise three children on the 125-acre mountain farm, where they grew rye, oats, sorghum, buckwheat, and corn. They also managed a large apple orchard of 25 to 30 trees, while their free-roaming livestock and poultry foraged in the woods. The family was incredibly resourceful. Martin was a local cobbler who set up a shoemaking bench inside the cabin to custom-make shoes for neighbors, charging roughly one dollar per pair depending on the size of the customer's foot. Caroline was a master weaver who grew her own flax and kept sheep for wool, spinning and dyeing her own yarn with native mountain roots, bark, and flowers. To earn extra money, Caroline and the children spent weeks foraging the wilderness mountainsides to collect wild native roots and medicinal herbs. They dried and sold roots like bloodroot, mayapple, and black snakeroot to traveling drug merchants who came from Boone and Jefferson, NC. During my visit, a National Park Service ranger was inside the cabin actively demonstrating the craft on Caroline's original historic loom, which was wonderful to see! Caroline fiercely maintained the farm alone for ten years after Martin passed away in 1925. In 1935, when the federal government started buying mountain land to build the Blue Ridge Parkway, the state purchased the homestead from Caroline and donated it to the National Park Service [nps.gov]. The springhouse, log structures, and root cellars were beautifully restored during the Great Depression by workers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to ensure it would stand as an authentic outdoor museum. Finding these hidden artistic and historical gems tucked away on the Parkway makes the whole road trip special & memorable!

Located on a quiet road in literally "Rural Hall", this marker stands in front of a red brick…read morechurch that dates back to the Revolutionary War era. It has the same text on both sides and reads, "Lutheran. Begun about 1778 by German settlers. Formerly called "Old Dutch Meeting House." Present building, 1878." It is marker number J-51 and it was erected in 1959 by the North Carolina Archives and Highway Departments. There is more information online. Nazareth Lutheran Church grew out of one of the region's earliest Lutheran communities, shaped by a mix of itinerant clergy and Moravian influence that helped anchor worship in this part of Forsyth County. Its first long‑term pastor, Gottlieb Shober, played a major role in strengthening scattered congregations across several counties during the early nineteenth century. The present brick church, completed in 1878 after the sale of most of the original land, still stands beside a cemetery that preserves some of the area's oldest German‑inscribed gravestones. [Review 623 of 2026 - 4711 in North Carolina - 25804 overall]

Mount Airy Painted Guitar is a colorful painted guitar that is located in Mayberry aka Mount Airy,…read moreNorth Carolina (disregard that this one shows in Winston Salem on Yelp) and is part of an art series featuring other paint guitars around the historic Main Street area Most of the guitars have placards with name plates on them. However this one has been torn off. Either way it is very brightly colored and a fun piece of public art. Overall a pretty cool little art series in the fun small town of Mayberry.

There are about 6-8 of these little painted guitars all across downtown Mayberry. We looked around…read moreand found all of them and added them on here for everyone to see. It was a fun little scavenger hunt to locate them. Its a nice colorful addition to the nice little TV town of Mayberry.