Places croxrd13 Wants to Go

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

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

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.