Places joanbugmurphy Wants to Go

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

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

Designed by famed architect Horace King.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

Where you can experience the story of Appalachia, as told by Appalachians.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

Like Mars, but much closer.