Places UpNorthGal Wants to Go

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

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

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A journey along this trail means indulging in a slice of nostalgia.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

America's first public mental health facility.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

Walk up a ramp through a forest for panoramic views of Lake Michigan.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.