The home town of Andy Griffith.  We checked out Floyds Barber Shop, The Snappy Lunch, Opie’s Candy Shop, Wally’s Service Station, and the Court House that housed Andy’s office and Otis’s cell.  They give tours of town in 1962-64 Ford Galaxy 500 police cars.  They have Barney’s salt and pepper suit on display at the museum along with an unbelievable collection of all things Andy Griffith from movie, comedy and TV days.

Some fun Mayberry trivia:

“Two chairs, no waiting” The sign in the window at Floyd’s

Andy’s desk name plate was flippable – Sheriff/Justice of the Peace

It is more than tourist stuff though

Mt Airy is home to a HUGE marble quarry.  They are mining surface stone not a deep quarry so we could get fairly close to check it out.  The employee assigned to keep us tourists from getting run over by euces was obviously pretty proud of the place and happy to tell us all about it.   Cool.