Places beefjorky Wants to Go

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Built in 1899, this luxurious home was part of one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.