Places spocksackmary Wants to Go

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Delve into the world of auto racing at this museum with dozens of cars and racing memorabilia.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.

One of the few authentic Japanese gardens in the state of Indiana and perhaps the most peaceful place in the city of Mishawaka.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.

The largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere hasn't hosted skiers in decades.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.