The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

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

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

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.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

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

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

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

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

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

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

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

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

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

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.