Places gone2croatan Wants to Go

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

A pilgrimage site where people ask Saint Dymphna to watch over those who are not of sound mind.

This only museum in the world dedicated solely to mushrooms.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

The displays in this off-the-beaten-path museum highlight the holistic, indigenous methods of healing.

This isolated Maya cemetery in Chiapas is distinguished by its towering, colorful wooden crosses.

The Acropolis of this little-visited Mayan archaeological site offers great views of Chiapas’s Lake District.

This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.

After becoming locally extinct, this esteemed avian now flies free in the forests around the ancient ruins.

Three small rooms in the jungle house the most elaborate and intact murals of the Mayan world.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

This massive Maya archaeological site is home to the tallest man-made structure in Belize.