Places lwatters Wants to Go

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

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

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

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

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

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.