Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

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

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

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

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

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

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

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

An eerie site of reverence for those who have completed an epic journey.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.