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

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

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

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

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

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

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.