Places Maggie Mason Wants to Go

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

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

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Art blooms at this unique outdoor gallery along the banks of the Arkansas River.

This historic drug store-turned-museum served an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

The seventh largest spring in the world.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

Locally known as the "Onion” and the "Egg Beater,” Casper’s most recognizable buildings are beloved local landmarks to many, and eyesores to others.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.