Places tabzmonroe Wants to Go

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

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

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

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.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.