The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

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

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

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

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

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

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.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

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

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

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

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

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

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

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

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

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

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

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