Mount Airy, North Carolina
Mount Airy
Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.
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Mount Airy, North Carolina
Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.
Asheville, North Carolina
The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.
Columbia, South Carolina
This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Columbia, South Carolina
This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.
Charleston, South Carolina
Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Cameron, West Virginia
The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
Moundsville, West Virginia
The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.