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A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

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

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The oldest building in Charleston was used to store gunpowder during the American Revolution.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

The first documented commercial gold find in the United States.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

Standing atop Wellington Hill is the world's tallest three-sided obelisk.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

A quiet cemetery in northeastern North Carolina holds tiny structures believed to protect spirits.

Royal burial place of the kings of ancient Britain.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

One of the most photographed locations in the entire city.