Places johnpageott Wants to Go

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

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.

This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.