Places shanemwoods Wants to Go

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.