Places shanemwoods Wants to Go

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

The simple gravesite of a Romany clan leader is dotted with offerings, including cans of her favorite drink, Crush orange soda.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."