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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

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

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

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

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

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

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

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

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

This historic museum is home to a rare Confederate Chester Gun.

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

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

Discovered by a soldier during the Revolutionary War, these springs helped create an iconic South Carolina ginger ale.