Places archampion Wants to Go

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

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

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.

This former courthouse is allegedly the site of the last witch trial in the United States.

Nine tiny mice sculptures hide in plain sight along Main Street.

This historic jailhouse was designed by famed architect Robert Mills.

The last refinements in the North Carolina-South Carolina boundary were marked with this stone.

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

A charming monument to a very special dog.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.