The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

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.

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

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

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

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

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

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

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

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