Get some farm-to-table history at this living history museum, where you’ll learn what farm life was like a hundred years ago.

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.

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

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

If it wasn’t for a real estate agent with a penchant for old-school arcades, this hands-on collection of nostalgic flipper machines might never exist.

A wildlife-filled oasis just off the coast of Myrtle Beach.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

For more than 150 years, this cemetery has served as the final resting place for many members of Wilmington's Black community.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

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

Saunter along the banks of one of North Carolina’s wildest rivers

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

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

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.