This historic Art Nouveau mansion has guided tours and impressive views of the Currituck Sound.

This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

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

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

This triangular lighthouse is one of the most modern in the U.S.

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

High seas history comes to life at this immersive museum with an on-site tavern.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The tabby ruin is Savannah’s oldest surviving structure.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

Visit a memorial to the Wesley brothers, one the founder of Methodism and one a writer of over 6,500 hymns.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.