Places Ian Hall Wants to Go

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

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

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

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

Hundreds of iconic jazz records were made in this church-like space.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.