Places remcrae Wants to Go

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

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

This Myrtle Beach art museum features a rotating display of pieces by artists from James Audubon to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s their collection of Southern works that truly impresses.

Get some farm-to-table history at this living history museum, where you’ll learn what farm life was like a hundred years ago.

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

One of few remaining marionette theatres in the United States that still conducts regular shows.

This oddities museum and folk art environment encourages visitors to play, explore, create, and even add to the environment itself.

This historic home of the shag is keeping a Southern dance tradition going strong.

A unique museum that uses visual art and storytelling to reveal the hidden history of the Gullah Geechee and their African ancestors.

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.

A wildlife-filled oasis just off the coast of Myrtle Beach.

The imprints of astronaut Charles Duke’s moon boots live on at Myrtle Beach’s official South Carolina Hall of Fame.

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.

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

A famous—but endangered—plant is on view at an unassuming nature preserve a quick drive from Myrtle Beach.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

Hidden in this little-known town stands a piece of agriculture history.

The ruins of this once-grand mansion are linked to one of the country’s most popular clothing brands.