Places raquel9e Wants to Go

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

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

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

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

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

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

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

One of the last designs from architect Oscar Niemeyer.

This unique bird reserve sits within an important fragment of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.

This magnificent tree towering over the Atlantic rainforest is one of the oldest and largest in Brazil.

Brasilia's oldest newsstand is sheltered by a wish-granting tunnel-tree.

The only restaurant serving indigenous foods from the Amazon.