If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

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

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

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

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

An advertising mural tempering the behavior of Charleston’s children since the late 1800s.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.