Places jbrunelle51 Wants to Go

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Scientists use one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth as a terrestrial base for studying water on Mars.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.