Places eharjes Wants to Go

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

A white oak with property rights.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

What better place to take a seat?

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.