The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

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

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

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

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

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

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

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

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

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

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

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

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

The humble beginnings of one of America’s greatest songsmiths.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.