Places nottootoo Wants to Go

A whimsical folk art environment where you can lose yourself in the many colors of joy, beauty, and creativity.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Hundreds of fiberglass structures line the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

Located inside a former record pressing plant, this recording studio pays homage to the techniques and gear of a bygone age.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.