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Atalaya

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Atalaya

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

Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum

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

Patrons line-up to play the museum’s collection of old-school pinball machines, which started from one man’s love of the game.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Myrtle Beach Pinball Museum

If it wasn’t for a real estate agent with a penchant for old-school arcades, this hands-on collection of nostalgic flipper machines might never exist.

This ship was once used to transport phosphorus.

Oak Island, North Carolina

Shipwreck Park

The remains of a 19th century cargo ship now sits in the middle of a quaint neighborhood after a century spent on the ocean floor.

Aerial view of the turntable

Raleigh, North Carolina

Seaboard Air Line Railroad Turntable

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

Stegosaurus.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Jerrassic Park - Metal Dinosaur Park

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

A view of the Daily Planet Theater from W Jones St.

Raleigh, North Carolina

The Daily Planet Theater

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

Art Deco butter churn sculpture

Raleigh, North Carolina

Pine State Creamery Butter Churn

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

Bain Waterworks Plant

Raleigh, North Carolina

Bain Waterworks Plant

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Whirligig Cyclist

Wilson, North Carolina

Whirligig Park (Formerly Acid Park)

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Belhaven Memorial Museum

Belhaven, North Carolina

Belhaven Memorial Museum

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

CSS Neuse II.

Kinston, North Carolina

CSS Neuse II

The large vessel is known as world’s only full-scale replica of a Confederate ironclad.

Under the trellis of perhaps the oldest grape vine in North America.

Manteo, North Carolina

The Mother Vine

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Purple martins fly back to the William B. Umstead bridge at dusk.

Manteo, North Carolina

William B. Umstead Bridge

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The "pet ham" is 119 years old.

Smithfield, Virginia

World’s Oldest Edible Ham

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

Cornwallis’ Cave

Yorktown, Virginia

Cornwallis’ Cave

A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.

The Archaearium

Williamsburg, Virginia

The Archaearium

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

President Heads

Williamsburg, Virginia

President Heads

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Hearth at Barrett House.

Lorton, Virginia

Barrett House

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

Beehive Brick Kiln

Lorton, Virginia

Beehive Brick Kiln

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

Graffiti House

Brandy Station, Virginia

Graffiti House

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

Just before sunrise

Washington, D.C.

D.C. War Memorial

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Hall of Fake Presidents

Washington, D.C.

Hall of Fake Presidents

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

Navy Yard Railroad Gun

Washington, D.C.

Navy Yard Railroad Gun

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

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