Places dym75 Wants to Go

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

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

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

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.