Places ciffergan Wants to Go

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

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

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

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

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

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

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

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

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

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

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.