Places mfoster42 Wants to Go

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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.

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

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

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.

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

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

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

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

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

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

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

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

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

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.