North America's oldest authentic African Village.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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