In 2016, three friends transformed Wilmington’s historical church on Castle Street into a friendly yoga studio with glowing stained-glass windows and gleaming wooden floors. Terra Sol offers weekly vinyasa, Pilates, and gentle yoga classes, as well as a variety of workshops from ecstatic dance to prenatal practice.

Piney Ridge Nature Preserve is not only a perfect shady place to stretch your legs, it is also home to the ADA-accessible Stanley Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden one of the only natural places where hungry pitcher plants and exotic Venus flytraps thrive in the wild.

One of America’s oldest theaters, the elegant Thalian Hall dates back to 1858. Take in a ballet performance, a night of doo-wop, or reserve tickets for the annual Afro-American production by the Willis Richardson Players (named after Wilmington native Willis Richardson, the first black playwright to be produced on Broadway back in 1923).

Just a nine-minute walk from Dreamers BnB, the featured exhibits of Cape Fear Museum of History and Science include Michael Jordan memorabilia, an interactive robotic arm, a giant ground sloth skeleton, an outdoor “ghost forest” exhibit, and the gold Tortolani cuff of Wilmington’s Caterina Jarboro—the first black Prima Donna of the American Grand Opera.