Places trixievw Wants to Go

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

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

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.