A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

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

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

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.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.