San Simeon, California
Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery
This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.
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San Simeon, California
This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.
Bermuda
The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.
Bermuda
The world's smallest drawbridge.
Bermuda
A tropical paradise once home to space exploration and military installations.
Bermuda
Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.
Bermuda
Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.
Santa Cruz, California
Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.
Provincia de Bongará, Peru
One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.
San Luis Obispo, California
A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."
Puerto Maldonado, Peru
This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.
Kershaw, South Carolina
Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.
Blackville, South Carolina
This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Charleston, South Carolina
Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.
Seabrook, South Carolina
North America's oldest authentic African Village.
Fort Lawn, South Carolina
Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Travelers Rest, South Carolina
The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.
Summerville, South Carolina
First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.
Bishopville, South Carolina
One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Sunset, South Carolina
The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.
Barnwell, South Carolina
The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.
Edisto Island, South Carolina
This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.