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Visit one, or all six, of the stops on this tour of a North Carolina signature sweet.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

The first free library in Georgia features an original Tiffany stained glass window of Mary Willis.

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.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

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

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

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

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

The ruins of a 19th-century mill are hidden along a greenway in a prominent Charlotte neighborhood.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.