The Whalehead House -- later the Whalehead Club -- in Corolla, a community in North Carolina's Outer Banks, a 200-mile-long string of barrier islands and spits off the coast that locals like to call the "OBX." The restored 1920s-era Art Nouveau-style mansion was built by northern industrialist Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his wife, Marie Louise, as a lavish hunting retreat in 1925. Photo by Carol Highsmith