Mystery Photos

Laboratory Cotton Mill Lincolnton, North Carolina   One of the Carolinas’ most colorfully-conceived textile mill names can be found on a sharp bend in...

Südbahn Railway Wiener Alps, Austria   They say necessity is the mother of invention.  Well, if you're the emperor of the Habsburg Empire -- centered on...

Landsford Canal State Park Chester County, South Carolina The surest sign of spring in Chester County?  The Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies in bloom, as these rare...

Creekside, circa 1840 Morganton, North Carolina   Contrary to popular belief (and logic), plantation agriculture existed wherever there was fertile land...

Hatcher Gardens - Spartanburg, SC   As you enter the Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserve, you are greeted by the zen sound of a bubbling creek as it...

Old Henderson County Courthouse Hendersonville, North Carolina   It's the only courthouse in the two Carolinas that memorializes participants from both...

Hogback Mountain, as seen from Jug Factory Road Spartanburg / Greenville Counties, South Carolina   From wild flowers in bloom to the Palmetto Trail to...

Tomb of Francis Marion, c. 1893 Belle Isle Plantation, South Carolina   The Swamp Fox's Enduring Legacy . . . with his tomb set beneath a canopy of...

American Humane Alliance Drinking Fountain, c. 1910 Abbeville, South Carolina   All Creatures Great and Small Welcome to Abbeville, South Carolina!  Home...