Plenty of publications provide information about the well-known tourist destinations in the Carolinas. Read them at your peril. They will co-opt your sovereignity, reduce you to a mere sightseer, and leave you with nothing to be discovered,
Fun and funny short vignettes of sites to visit in NC, like named live Oaks (angel tree, Washington tree, unc poplar tree), Tom dooleys real travels , the Indian road etc. Has photos, no maps, very few bibliographic further readings.