Places shawtish Wants to Go

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

The only subterranean ping pong table in Atlanta.

A vast collection of rare, historical, and vintage supercomputers.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

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

A man's home is his castle.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.