Places TomBat Wants to Go

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Erosion has transformed this sandstone boulder into a massive dune-filled cavern.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

This restaurant is devoted to celebrating Appalachia's cuisine.

A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.

This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.

Dine in a former general store from the Roaring Twenties, when Eggleston was a hot springs boomtown.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The woman whose immortal cell line continues to shape scientific research was buried near her birthplace in a grave that was left unmarked for nearly 60 years.

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

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

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

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.