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

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

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

Hundreds of fiberglass structures line the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.

A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.