Places Pengwn Wants to Go

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

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

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

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

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.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.