Places zeffer Wants to Go

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

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

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

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

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

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

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

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.