Places Smurphinator Wants to Go

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

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

This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

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

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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