Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

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

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

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

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

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.