Up, Out & About
With picture-perfect sand dunes and a steady breeze keeping the heat down, bugs away and their dreams aloft, it’s easy to see why the Wright Brothers chose Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina’s Outer Banks as the place to design and fly the ungainly aircraft that would change the world.
Mobile Bay
If you have ever been to the Gulf Coast, there is a good chance that you arrived at your final destination by traveling through Mobile, Ala.
As you passed through, you might have noticed some signs along Interstate 10 for Bellingrath Gardens, Dauphin Island and a
Körner’s Folly
A three-story, 125-year-old brick house with 22 rooms, 15 fireplaces, and numerous trap doors is – not surprisingly – the most eccentric building on Main Street in Kernersville, N.C. Indeed, it is advertised as “the strangest house in the world.”
Construction of the house began in 1880. Its owner was a young German-born gentleman named Jule Gilmer Körner, who was a decorator, painter and interior designer.
The Mound Builders of Macon
When the explorer and naturalist William Bartram first encountered them in the 1770s, he described them as “wonderful remains of the power and grandeur of the ancients in this part of America.” He was speaking of the Ocmulgee Mounds near Macon, Georgia. The wonder that these unique structures
Scenic Byways
Through the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina, U.S. 64 is known by a variety of names with those highway monikers describing a little about each area’s features and heritage.
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