Places dmjournalist Wants to Go

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Visit one, or all six, of the stops on this tour of a North Carolina signature sweet.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

The story of the country’s most famous sports magazine began at a historic Myrtle Beach golf club.

Nine tiny mice sculptures hide in plain sight along Main Street.

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

This historic home of the shag is keeping a Southern dance tradition going strong.

A charming monument to a very special dog.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.