Places JohnforAmerica Wants to Go

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

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

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.