Places mmhales Wants to Go

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

These springs were once the source of a tourism boom to Sulphur Springs.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

The largest spring in Northwest Arkansas is also home to a sprawling botanical gardens and a historically significant bluff.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.

Crystal hunters can dig for their own stones at this DIY mine in Arkansas’ quartz belt.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

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

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.