Places slapphappe Wants to Go

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.

"Leave a He-Man, Take a Transformer" and share a story about your real-life superhero.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Hidden among the trees at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center are more than 20 gnomes in small wooden houses.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.