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

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

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

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

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

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

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

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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

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

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

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

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.