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.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.