Places TheMarmoset Wants to Go

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

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

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

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

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

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

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.