North Carolina is teeming with abandoned places to discover along trails through the woods. From the ruins of an old plane crash on the side of a mountain to a redundant church deep in the woods in the Cataloochee Valley, and even a ghost town, you may be surprised at the historical sites that you can hike to in the Tar Heel State.

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