This oddities museum and folk art environment encourages visitors to play, explore, create, and even add to the environment itself.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

If it wasn’t for a real estate agent with a penchant for old-school arcades, this hands-on collection of nostalgic flipper machines might never exist.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.