One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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

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

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

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.

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

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

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

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

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

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

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

North America's oldest authentic African Village.