Places Gillian Wants to Go

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

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

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

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

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.