Places inthenavey Wants to Go

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

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