On the one hand, it may be the weakest excuse for travelling away from the city of Charlotte that you can imagine, but a trip to the nearby city of Gastonia is worth visiting if you like big things.
Home to the largest American Flag in the whole world, above the city of Gastonia, flies a stars and stripes of enormous size - 65feet tall, 115 feet wide, and is visible for over 30 miles (when the wind is strong enough to blow it).
