Places Vyviane Wants to Go

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

At this coffee shop, each drink celebrates African-American history and luminaries.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.

Designed by famed architect Horace King.

A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

This pair of centuries-old magnolia trees was once struck by a Babe Ruth home run.

A historic canal winds through a unique, swampy landscape.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

The humble beginnings of one of America’s greatest songsmiths.

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

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

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.