Places peregrine79 Wants to Go

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Now a public art piece, this curious metal feature originally advertised a tinsmith's services.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

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

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.

This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.