Places godessoftrees Wants to Go

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The world's longest known cave system.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.