Places johncyrilokeefe Wants to Go

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

The Real LegoLand.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

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

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

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?