Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

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

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

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.