Places atozenith Wants to Go

This 19th century cotton-gin factory has been repurposed into an artist space and cultural center, complete with goats.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.

Built in 1968, this arthouse has kept its movie-palace decor and has its own museum.

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

The longest pier in North America stretches over the Chesapeake Bay.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

America's first wax museum opened in 1948.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

A Gilded Age hotel turned eclectic museum of Tiffany glass and curiosities

Juicy Argentinian empanadas so good they’re worth a stain or two

Come for the mofongo, stay for the Puerto Rican house party.

Brazilian food with fresh ingredients, like basil snipped from a backyard garden

This restaurant feels like a trip to the Dominican Republic—right down to the beer served in a hollowed-out drum.

This historic eatery pays tribute to the building’s earliest roots as a hardware store.

Where the locals flock for the authentic flavors of Puerto Rico's pinchos.

Costa Rican coffee and Venezuelan cuisine, made with painstaking attention to detail.