Places sburke4444 Wants to Go

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

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

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.