Places Kate Rayne Wants to Go

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

An active seahorse farm is currently saving Tasmania's handfish from extinction.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.