Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

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

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

100 years later, they're still down there.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.