Tryon, North Carolina
Nina Simone's Childhood Home
The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Tryon, North Carolina
The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.
Charlotte, North Carolina
These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.
Southport, North Carolina
This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.
Mount Gilead, North Carolina
This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.
Brevard, North Carolina
This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.
Frisco, North Carolina
The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks. Â .
Greensboro, North Carolina
This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.
Black Mountain, North Carolina
Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.
Boston, Massachusetts
This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.
Boston, Massachusetts
A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.
Santo Stefano Quisquina, Italy
Gorgeous views of Italian mountains and valleys form the backdrop of this unique open-air theater.
Dallas, Texas
See the sky in a new way through this art installation.
San Francisco, California
A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
Austin, Texas
A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.
TÅkamachi-shi, Japan
This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.
Skibbereen, Ireland
This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.
Seattle, Washington
An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.
The Hague, Netherlands
Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.
Portland, Oregon
A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.
Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.