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Gaffney, South Carolina

Gaffney Peachoid

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.
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Blacksburg, South Carolina

Abandoned Castle Video Games

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

Key West Cemetery

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.
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Key West, Florida

Nancy Forrester's Secret Garden

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.
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Key West, Florida

Captain Tony's Saloon

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
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Key West, Florida

Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
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Key West, Florida

Robert the Doll

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.
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Bird Island, North Carolina

Kindred Spirit Mailbox

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Franklin G. Burroughs - Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum

This Myrtle Beach art museum features a rotating display of pieces by artists from James Audubon to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s their collection of Southern works that truly impresses.
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Waites Island, South Carolina

Waites Island

A wildlife-filled oasis just off the coast of Myrtle Beach.
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North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Fat Harold’s Beach Club

This historic home of the shag is keeping a Southern dance tradition going strong.
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Pawleys Island, South Carolina

Sandy Island Preserve

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.
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Little River, South Carolina

The Parson's Table

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.
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Georgetown, South Carolina

Prince Frederick’s Chapel Ruins

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Mt. Atlanticus Minotaur Goff

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Kirk's 1890 Ice Cream Parlor

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.
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Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Live Oak Allée at Brookgreen Gardens

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

Apollo Moonprints in Cement

The imprints of astronaut Charles Duke’s moon boots live on at Myrtle Beach’s official South Carolina Hall of Fame.
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Site of Charlie’s Place

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

The Gay Dolphin

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

Myrtle Beach Pinball Museum

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.
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Malden, Massachusetts

Mystic Side Opera Company

This Victorian home turned opera house may have a phantom of its own.
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Nachikatsuura-chō, Japan

Fudarakusan-ji

A temple made famous by Japanese Buddhist monks who sacrificed themselves at sea.
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Etna, Maine

Camp Etna

A major spiritual gathering place in central Maine since the mid-1800s.
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