Places rodneyconley Wants to Go

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

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

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.