Places petitebella127 Wants to Go

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

Visit the natural wonder inspired by an indigenous legend and the quaint town that bears its name.

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The only labyrinth within the city of Alexandria.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

Home to a 27 room house, this estate was crafted by Black entrepreneur Olander Banks Sr.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

The branches of this sprawling cedar tree are laden with wishes big and small.

The last vestige of a once substantial orchard and farm in the suburbs of Northern Virginia.

The local community brought back this land to transform it into a nature preserve.

Constructed by the younger brother of George Washington.

Erosion has transformed this sandstone boulder into a massive dune-filled cavern.

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.