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stonewall072

I am a student of Anthropology and Linguistics, hobbyist photographer, occasional writer, didgeridoo player, SCUBA diver, former journalist, and all together Renaissance Man.

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Places visited in Crossville, Tennessee

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Fackler, Alabama

Neversink Pit

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

planan

Added by planan

Sewanee, Tennessee

The Templeton Library

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

Joey Freshwater

Added by Joey Freshwater

Waxhaw, North Carolina

The Museum of the Alphabet

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

Summerville, Georgia

Corpsewood Manor

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Added by halfmanhalfman

Burnsville, North Carolina

Mount Mitchell

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

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Blairsville, Georgia

Brasstown Bald

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

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Sylva, North Carolina

American Museum of the House Cat

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

e1savage

Added by e1savage

Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

Mammoth Cave

The world's longest known cave system.

Added by urk1971

The Great Serpent Mound

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Green Bank, West Virginia

Green Bank Telescope

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Clayton, Georgia

Ice Box Cemetery

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

Added by spikethecat

Thurmond, West Virginia

Thurmond, West Virginia

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

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Erwin, Tennessee

Lost Cove Settlement

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

Added by kalimari1737

Athens, Georgia

The Tree That Owns Itself

A white oak with property rights.

Added by tangerinewarrior

Cullowhee, North Carolina

Judaculla Rock

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Added by eSlacktish