Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

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

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

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

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

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

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

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

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

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.