Places cherylrowe81 Wants to Go

Visit a family-run restaurant that has been serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

In 1912, a broken section of the reservoir wall released millions of gallons of water and destroyed many homes downhill.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

This site in Caldwell County is the location where the Cherokee and Catawba are said to have entered a peace treaty.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.