Places m124 Wants to Go

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Opened in 1911, this small shop is the oldest ongoing establishment in St. George.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

Historical structures and natural wonders await visitors to this preserve.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

The center preserves and houses artifacts ranging from the colonial era to modern times from across Appalachia.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.