Places zamand Wants to Go

If it wasn’t for a real estate agent with a penchant for old-school arcades, this hands-on collection of nostalgic flipper machines might never exist.

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

This hauntingly beautiful stretch of Florida coastline is covered in sun-bleached trees.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

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

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

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

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.