Places rsowton Wants to Go

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

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

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

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

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.