Places craigdreher Wants to Go

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Become a prohibition rebel.