Come on in! Why not stay for dinner? (Joel Kramer/Flickr)

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USA Today and other news sources have since noted that Elkmont, also called the Wonderland Club, was hardly in need of “discovering”, and is actually a well-known, well-documented community of vacation homes abandoned after the Smokies became a national park. Though the discovery doesn’t live up to the Huff Post hype, Liles’s pictures of the disheveled cabins and boarded windows are wonderfully eerie. 

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