Places NG3894 Wants to Go

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

A beloved horticultural oasis on the grounds of a wealthy family's former estate.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Hidden behind West Philadelphia rowhomes is a haven for migratory and local bird species both ordinary and rare.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.