This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

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

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

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

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

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

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

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

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

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.