Places smolsprinkles Wants to Go

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

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

Born from segregation and exclusion, Durham’s Black Wall Street is now a living reminder of the city’s past

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

Get some farm-to-table history at this living history museum, where you’ll learn what farm life was like a hundred years ago.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

An abandoned munitions storage facility with a rich architectural history.

The tabby ruin is Savannah’s oldest surviving structure.

This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.