One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

Discovered by a soldier during the Revolutionary War, these springs helped create an iconic South Carolina ginger ale.

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

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

These tiny cabins on a cableway have been carrying visitors at a Baltic resort down to the beach since 1912.

Walk into an underground archeological dig, the site of the Roman Forum that was once the center of Valencia.