Places Trauma Wants to Go

See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

An environmental art installation inspired by farmhouses and crop circles.

The site of a minor battle might have been forgotten if not for one participant’s famous family and the death of a respected warrior.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

A busy island at the center of the world that doesn’t actually exist.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.