Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.