Places phildzielski Wants to Go

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

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

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

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

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

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

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

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

A vast collection of everyday items amassed by one man.

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.