Places Kelli Mullin Wants to Go

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This Western Australian mint was established during the height of the Australian gold rush.