Athens, Georgia
The Tree That Owns Itself
A white oak with property rights.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Athens, Georgia
A white oak with property rights.
Partridge, Kentucky
You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.
Cincinnati, Ohio
A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.
Holbrook, Arizona
A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.
Winslow, Arizona
This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.
Smithland, Kentucky
An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.
Memphis, Tennessee
Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.
Atlanta, Georgia
The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.
New York, New York
The most confusing clock in New York.
New York, New York
The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.
New York, New York
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
New York, New York
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.
Olema, California
'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.
Sausalito, California
A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.
Sausalito, California
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
Sausalito, California
A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.
Beech Mountain, North Carolina
A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Murphy, North Carolina
The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Knoxville, Tennessee
This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.
Blairsville, Georgia
Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.