Places smileycj1 Wants to Go

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

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

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.