4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

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

The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

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

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.