Places alysonsousa1 Wants to Go

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

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

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.