Places Jess the Mess Wants to Go

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.