Places Maggie Mason Wants to Go

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

A legendary music collector donated his entire collection to the entire city of Memphis.

A house built specifically to shelter the dead.

An enormous mural of a local Nashville resident adorns this abandoned silo.

A museum dedicated to preserving, promoting, and advancing the art and craft of fine metalwork.

This historic home of the shag is keeping a Southern dance tradition going strong.

The ruins of this once-grand mansion are linked to one of the country’s most popular clothing brands.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

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

This town at the north edge of Myrtle Beach holds a wealth of Black history.

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

Hidden in this little-known town stands a piece of agriculture history.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

A whimsical folk art environment where you can lose yourself in the many colors of joy, beauty, and creativity.

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

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

Sambusas get a Deep Southern twist at this Somali chai haven.