Places jesscbatten Wants to Go

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Years of neglect and nature took a toll on this 19th-century lighthouse.

This former sugarcane transport tunnel is now a portal to a lovely beach.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

This limestone cave offers an incredible view of the Río Grande de Arecibo valley.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

Puerto Rico's oldest rum producer started its 140-year-old business with "a little barrel."

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

The ruins of the first Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.