Places miriamrigg Wants to Go

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

Stroll around the headstones of notable figures from Knoxville's history, as well as towering monoliths and melancholic headstones.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

This roadside stand claims to be the world's smallest bookstore.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

This restored 18th-century house was once the home of Lititz's first tobacconist.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

A rare example of pre-Revolutionary war Georgian-style architecture in Virginia's Piedmont region.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.