Places LightningBugLuvr Wants to Go

Descend into the world’s longest-running deep anthracite coal mine.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

This iconic lounge is home to the longest running drag show in Philadelphia, iconic jazz trios, and is the birthplace to the infamous "Citywide."

America’s first living history museum of camping — a decade-by-decade museum of vintage campers, luxury tents, and Northwoods vacation history that guests can actually sleep in.

A remote island marking the entrance to Death’s Door, surrounded by the bones of ships who failed to heed her warnings.

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

A one stop shop for one-of-a-kind antiques, artifacts, and rare oddities sourced from across the globe.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.