The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

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

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

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

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

This Myrtle Beach art museum features a rotating display of pieces by artists from James Audubon to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s their collection of Southern works that truly impresses.

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

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 haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

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

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

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

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.