Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

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

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

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

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

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

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

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

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

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

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

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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

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

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

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

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

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