Lake Lure, North Carolina
Lake Lure
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.
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Beaufort, North Carolina
North Carolina Maritime Museum at Beaufort
A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
Paint Rock
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Bird Island, North Carolina
Kindred Spirit Mailbox
A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The Last Shell Oil Clamshell Station
This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Judaculla Rock
Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Velarde, New Mexico
Mesa Prieta Petroglyphs
A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.
Silver City, New Mexico
Gila Cliff Dwellings
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
La Cieneguilla Petroglyph Site
These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
Hindenburg Crash Site
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
