Places ellierudd20 Wants to Go

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

A collection of abstract sculptures by a former tobacco auctioneer turned outsider artist.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

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

A disarmed 40-foot nuclear missile on display outside a North Carolina church.

This steam locomotive served as both an interesting static display and unique playground equipment since 1959.

The first documented commercial gold find in the United States.

One of the last remaining pedestrian suspension bridges in North Carolina.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

Hundreds of fiberglass structures line the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.