Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

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

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

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

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.