North Carolina's lakes have claimed many ghost towns, and Merry Oaks isn't entirely an exception. Its grist mill- a mill that once served the entire community- now rests beneath the lake.

The historic North Carolina mill village ... used its wooded hills and abandoned homes as a compelling backdrop to Everdeen’s impoverished, post-apocalyptic mining town on the fringes of society.

Hunger Games movie hit the big screen, one of the franchise’s iconic filming locations, Henry River Mill Village in Hickory, ...