Places ladytecate Wants to Go

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.