Places themandino Wants to Go

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.