Places tril Wants to Go

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

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

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

An abandoned railroad tunnel forgotten by time awaits inquisitive hikers.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

A man's home is his castle.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

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

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.