Places phildzielski Wants to Go

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.