Places shanemwoods Wants to Go

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

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

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

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

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.