Places mmhales Wants to Go

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

Waterfalls, rapids, and top-notch swimming spots await in this densely forested corner of the Smokies.

The grave of the 19th-century sea captain who coined the phrase "Old Glory" can be found in this quiet cemetery.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

Flaunt your karaoke chops at this pitch-perfect dive bar.

This chestnut box will not be opened until the country music legend's 100th birthday in 2046.

Over 200 people were buried here with only a small stone to mark their final resting place.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Learn about the neighborhood founded by the last people ever brought to the United States by the Atlantic Slave Trade, still inhabited by their descendants.

Six separate cemeteries became one, on the grounds of a former schoolhouse.

The quiet resting place of a rock and roll legend.

A statue in Enterprise, Alabama hailing the fast food giant Ronald McDonald, stylized as a boll weevil.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.