A white oak with property rights.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

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

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.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

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

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.