Places Deano Wants to Go

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

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

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

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.