Places Nicole Lee Wants to Go

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

In the Mound Hill Cemetery resides the final resting place of the world's tallest couple.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

This memorial and the seawall that it stands near are powerful symbols of the island’s resilience.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

The statue, located at a mansion-turned-emancipation museum, honors Galveston’s history as the birthplace of Juneteenth.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.