Places orjustfriends Wants to Go

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

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

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

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

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

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

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.