Places valadelrio Wants to Go

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Bizarre Cavern.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

On a clear afternoon, you can see mountain peaks more than 40 miles away from this clearing in the Pisgah National Forest.

Marvel at 400-year-old trees in one of the last remaining old-growth Appalachian forests.

One of the last remaining pedestrian suspension bridges in North Carolina.

Hundreds of fiberglass structures line the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.

Saunter along the banks of one of North Carolina’s wildest rivers

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

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.