This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This small exhibit explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the first known conjoined twins.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.