Places goodepeggy Wants to Go

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.