Places Pappi D Wants to Go

The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.

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

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

An eerie site of reverence for those who have completed an epic journey.

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

Catch beautiful views at the graffitied observation deck on this mountain top.

Marvel at 400-year-old trees in one of the last remaining old-growth Appalachian forests.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

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

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

A watering hole where regulars who have ordered 500 beers have their names etched on the bar in gold.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.