Places eecarter Wants to Go

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

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

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.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The inventor of the iconic Pringles can was so proud of his invention he was buried in one.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.