A North Carolina aquarium closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic is collecting coins that have piled up in a wishing well for many years, while the U.S. continues to experience a shortage in coins ...

For one aquarium, the coins tossed into its waterfall as wishes have become something more than submerged hopes and dreams. The North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores said it's transforming the ...

The waterfall at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores was never meant to be a wishing well. Yet, over time, the 30-foot Smoky Mountain waterfall has become a popular spot for visitors to ...

BRIANA: MOST OF US HAVE MEMORIES OF TOSSING PENNIES INTO FOUNTAINS. NOW SOME OF THAT SPARE CHANGE IS HELPING A NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM THAT CAN’T OPEN YET. STAFF AT THE AQUARIUM AT PINE KNOLL SHORES ...

After weeks of cleaning and more than 10 hours of feeding coins into a bank’s coin counting machine, the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores knows how much in coins was sitting at the bottom ...