Places barrymitchellpe Wants to Go

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.

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

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

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

Believed to be the former location of one of the earliest Viking assemblies in Europe.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.