Those are some impressive trees!
In Albright Cove, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, there is still an area of primieval (aka "old-growth") Appalachian forest that has some huge trees of several species.
Here's a red maple:
It has a pretty large grove of tulip trees (often called a tulip poplar, though it's not really a poplar):
One of the tulip trees was the largest of its kind in the world - but I understand that storms recently brought it down...
If you've never had the chance to experience a primieval forest, you really should do so. They look like something from a movie or fairy tale, with huge trunks that may soar 75 - 100 feet to the first limb, and a canopy so dense that it cuts off most sunlight, suppressing the undergrowth beneath them... reminds you of being in a cathedral or something.
There's another one in the Joyce Kilmer National Forest of SW North Carolina. Those are the only two that I'm aware of in the east... everything else was logged off, at one time or another.
The trees certainly don't compare in size (nor likely the age) to the redwoods, but they're still quite special in their own right...