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

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A white oak with property rights.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

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

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

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

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.