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

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

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

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

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

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

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

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

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.