Places adamU Wants to Go

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

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

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.