This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

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

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

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

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

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

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

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

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.