Places megantheforce Wants to Go

A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

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

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.