Places mandkwesley Wants to Go

Pay your respects at this juke joint founded by a blues legend of the Mississippi Delta.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.