A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

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

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

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

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.