Places downhomefunk Wants to Go

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

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

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.