Places MarkL Wants to Go

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Chef Ashleigh Shanti serves up a classic Appalachian fish fry.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

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

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.