Places pamelajoon Wants to Go

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

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

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

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

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

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

The world’s first statue of the late Apple co-founder.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.