The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

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

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

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

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

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

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

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

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.