Places TeamDD Wants to Go

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

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

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

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

This park offers a variety of sights and activities including trail rides and buffalo sightings.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.

Discovered by a soldier during the Revolutionary War, these springs helped create an iconic South Carolina ginger ale.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

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

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

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

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.