Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

America's first federal monument.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Bizarre Cavern.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.