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South Of The Border
Dillon, South Carolina
The classic I-95 tourist trap and vacation theme world, just south of the North Carolina border.
UFO Welcome Center
Bowman, South Carolina
Jody Pendarvis has spent years building a huge double-decker wooden flying saucer beside his trailer.
Miniature Golf Capital of the World
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
If you've ever wanted to putt golf balls inside an erupting volcano, this is where you want to go.
Alligator Adventure
Atlantic Beach, South Carolina
The star attraction at this traditional gator ranch attraction is "Utan, King of the Crocs," 20 feet long and weighing over a ton.
Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden
Bishopville, South Carolina
Yard artist Pearl's hedge clippers are always busy, and seem to have a mind of their own in his broad suburban shapescape.
Button King Museum
Bishopville, South Carolina
Dalton Stevens -- known as "The Button King" -- displays the cars and furnishings and clothes to which he's glued and sewed about a million buttons. Dalton passed away on Nov. 21, 2016. Museum later reopened.
Cotton Museum: Lizard Man!
Bishopville, South Carolina
Among its cotton industry exhibits are the World's Largest Boll Weevil and souvenirs promoting the Lizard Man of Scrap Ore Swamp (trashing local cars since the late 1980s).
God's Acre Healing Springs
Blackville, South Carolina
The land's owner is listed as "God, Almighty" in local property records, so its water comes straight from Jehovah.
Eddie, World's Biggest Kid - EdVenture
Columbia, South Carolina
At EdVenture, children crawl through the guts of a giant, ethnically blended boy.
Tunnelvision
Columbia, South Carolina
Deceptively realistic highway tunnel entrance painted on the side of a building in 1975.
Peachoid Water Tower
Gaffney, South Carolina
This giant watersphere is shaped and painted to look like a peach -- but some still think that it resembles a big butt.
Statue and Tomb of Doomed Astronaut
Lake City, South Carolina
Ronald McNair perished in the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. His home town has definitely not forgotten him.
Huey Cooper and His Lucky Rabbit's Foot
Lake City, South Carolina
Huey Cooper would hang out in downtown Lake City and encourage passers-by to rub his lucky rabbit's foot for a nickel. He said he was 105 years old when he died in 1978.
President Jackson Born Here, Maybe
Lancaster, South Carolina
Was America's seventh President born here -- or across the state line in North Carolina? Based on appearances and effort, South Carolina wins.
Atom Bomb Dropped Here
Mars Bluff, South Carolina
A colossal Air Force oops in 1958 left a non-nuclear crater, still visible today.