Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

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

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

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

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

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.

After Christopher Columbus died, his son built a fancy house to rule from.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.