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Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

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

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

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

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

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

If it wasn’t for a real estate agent with a penchant for old-school arcades, this hands-on collection of nostalgic flipper machines might never exist.

Take in some Air Force history—and ogle some beautiful planes—at this little-known park near Myrtle Beach’s seashore.

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

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

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

This oddities museum and folk art environment encourages visitors to play, explore, create, and even add to the environment itself.

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A cannonball from Union forces battling John Hunt Morgan made this church a permanent home.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.