Places Sonj Wants to Go

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Once the site of seances, this restaurant is said to be haunted by several ghosts.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

This site is believed to be connected to the oldest house in Arlington County.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

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

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

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

This tiny shoe shop claims to be the smallest store of its kind in Britain.

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

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

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

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

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

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

Forgotten German bunkers in China create a sharp cultural contrast.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

You’ve heard of bookworms, but this small sculpture at a university library may be the world’s first bookbee.