Places adamU Wants to Go

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

Marvel at 400-year-old trees in one of the last remaining old-growth Appalachian forests.

This museum is dedicated to the workers that help keep the power on.

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

A vast collection of everyday items amassed by one man.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A hotly contested micro-nation off the coast of Montserrat.

The highest point in the Kingdom of the Netherlands is on a remote Caribbean island atop a dormant volcano.

The shortest in the world, this landing strip stretches a mere 1,312 feet before steep cliffs on either end plunge into the Caribbean.

On one of the tiniest islands in the Caribbean lies a nearly 300-year-old syangogue.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Dedicated to extinct passenger pigeons.

The remnants of an abandoned, 19th-century gold mill along Aruba's rugged northeastern coast.

A mysterious sculpture is hidden in Vancouver's Stanley Park.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.