Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

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.

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

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.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

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

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

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

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

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

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

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

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

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

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

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