Places alessandralee Wants to Go

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

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

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

A man's home is his castle.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A white oak with property rights.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

This isolated Maya cemetery in Chiapas is distinguished by its towering, colorful wooden crosses.

The walls of a colonial-era fort encircle a small, tropical assortment of plant life.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.