Places dakotal8888 Wants to Go

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

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

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

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

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

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

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

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

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

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.