Places achughesco Wants to Go

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.