Places christacarroll Wants to Go

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.