Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

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

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

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

This museum is dedicated to the workers that help keep the power on.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.