Places Jen Seriously Wants to Go

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

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

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.