Places Debby Morris Wants to Go

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

This chestnut box will not be opened until the country music legend's 100th birthday in 2046.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

Once used by British troops to gather water prior to the Battle of Bladensburg.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.

Using a massive antenna made up of five miles of wire, two scientists tuned into organic radio waves from the planet Jupiter.

This mighty white oak in Bethesda survived both the American Revolution and the construction of Washington D.C.'s metro red line.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.