The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

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

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.