Places lakupper13 Wants to Go

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

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

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

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

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

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

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.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

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

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.

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

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

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.