Charlotte, North Carolina
McGill Rose Garden
This scented city oasis was a labor of love.
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Charlotte, North Carolina
This scented city oasis was a labor of love.
Chester, South Carolina
This historic museum is home to a rare Confederate Chester Gun.
Charlotte, North Carolina
A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.
Concord, North Carolina
The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.
Fort Mill, South Carolina
A replica of where the Last Supper was held.
Edisto Island, South Carolina
This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.
Charlotte, North Carolina
These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.
Badin, North Carolina
The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.
Bear Creek, North Carolina
A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.
Walterboro, South Carolina
This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.
Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina
The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.
Sanford, North Carolina
Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.
Southport, North Carolina
This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.
Fort Lawn, South Carolina
Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.
Sanford, North Carolina
An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.
Waxhaw, North Carolina
Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.
Columbia, South Carolina
This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.
Columbia, South Carolina
An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.
Saint George, South Carolina
The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.
Charleston, South Carolina
Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
Charleston, South Carolina
Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.