Wilson, North Carolina
Whirligig Park (Formerly Acid Park)
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.
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Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.
Norfolk, Virginia
This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.
Greenville, South Carolina
This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Clinton, South Carolina
Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.
Morgan Island, South Carolina
4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.
Beaufort, South Carolina
This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Easley, South Carolina
A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.
Summerville, South Carolina
First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.
Charlotte, North Carolina
This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.
Charlotte, North Carolina
A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.
Charlotte, North Carolina
These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Columbia, South Carolina
An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.
Travelers Rest, South Carolina
The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.