Places wummewenders Wants to Go

The 34th governor of Kentucky was sworn into office while on his deathbed after being shot outside the State House.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

The world's largest collection of autographed baseballs can be found at the St. Petersburg Museum of History.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

The world's longest known cave system.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

Bizarre Cavern.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.