Places Ciaranofeire Wants to Go

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.