Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

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.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”