Places shbtlr Wants to Go

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

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

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.