Places A Bear Wants to Go

The site where nine miners were trapped underground for over 77 hours in 2002.

A eight-foot-tall statue resides in the heart of Pennsylvania anthracite coal country.

Collection of scores of race cars from the 1900s to recent lovingly maintained and displayed.

This extraordinary model train layout covers over 1,700 square feet, with multiple trains running simultaneously.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

The last remnants of a lakeside airport that was bulldozed overnight by the mayor of Chicago.

A 20-foot-tall quarter commemorates George Washington’s ties to Bedford County.

Dedicated to extinct passenger pigeons.

This vintage short line in Amish country runs passenger steam train excursions and still hauls freight.

This family-owned diner has been slinging chili dogs since 1940.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

Admire a Lilliputian replica of the fast food outlet.

This historic high school was saved from demolition to become an island home for Marshall’s creative community.

This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.

Born from segregation and exclusion, Durham’s Black Wall Street is now a living reminder of the city’s past

This family-run joint has been going whole hog for nearly 100 years.

Saunter along the banks of one of North Carolina’s wildest rivers

A once-abandoned school building converted into a fantastical multi-level art installation and haven for Appalachian artists.

This original Mason-Dixon line cairn placed in the 1760s was put in the wrong location because of the gravitational pull of the Allegheny Mountains.

Welcome to the home of the world's largest typewriter company.

The Gaslamp District's oldest bar sports a urinal marked with a golden plaque that was allegedly used by Mick Jagger.

A 1,000-foot-long railroad tunnel under Shavers Fork connected the towns during West Virginia's logging boom until its closure in 1985.

A mini-Stonehenge in the corner of the North Carolina state capitol grounds.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.