Places Iny Wants to Go

This 19th century cotton-gin factory has been repurposed into an artist space and cultural center, complete with goats.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

Like Mars, but much closer.

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.

A celebration of one man’s obsession to collect the strangest items imaginable.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.

This chestnut box will not be opened until the country music legend's 100th birthday in 2046.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

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

A white oak with property rights.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.