Places tishtishtish Wants to Go

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

The longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in this humble cabin.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

The birthplace of the first author to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and poetry.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.