Places Mallory Wants to Go

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.