Now you can own the horrible town from The Hunger Games
Should you be a huge Hunger Games fan with an insane amount of disposable income, or a real estate developer who detests the tedium of actually developing real estate, CNBC has a deal for you: North Carolina’s Henry River Mill Village—the abandoned town that stands in for the film’s post-apocalyptic Appalachian slums—can be yours for the asking price of $1.4 million, which nets you the entire 72-acre property and every still-standing building on it, including the Everdeen family shack and the bakery that was the backdrop for a meaningful flashback involving a loaf of burnt bread. The town’s current owner—an 83-year-old named Wade Shepherd who CNBC hilariously notes is “not a Hunger Games fan and hasn’t read the books”—originally bought the former cotton-manufacturing village in order to protect his own home across the river. But of course, The Hunger Games has already made the town a very popular tourist destination, and now Shepherd is just trying to get these damn kids off his dead lawn.