Places Sarah Finley Wants to Go

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

Tombstone of a dog that greeted passengers at the Southern Railway Depot.

The Okefenokee Swamp houses this "incredibobble" tribute to the creator of America’s favorite cartoon possum.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

A life-sized baby elephant tombstone marks the grave of a circus owner at a country church in southern Georgia.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

Where you can experience the story of Appalachia, as told by Appalachians.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

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

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

This Miami cemetery holds the remains of two Cuban presidents, a Nicaraguan president, and the senior Desi Arnaz. And it was once the resting place of the crown prince of Spain.

A spirited shopping experience.