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cairinthecity

Caroline Eubanks is a travel writer from Atlanta, Georgia and the Lowell Thomas award-winning author of This Is My South: The Essential Travel Guide to the Southern States. Her work on the weird and wonderful has been published by Mental Floss, The Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, and Conde Nast Traveler.

https://carolineeubanks.com/

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Cajun Kitchen

Viet-Cajun is a true hybrid cuisine that evolved in Houston and at this Asiatown mainstay, there’s more to it than just crawfish.

Diana Hubbell

Added by Diana Hubbell

Rothko Chapel

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

leiris

Added by leiris

Beer Can House

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Added by mbison

San Antonio, Texas

Mission San Jose

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Madiha Bataineh

Added by Madiha Bataineh

Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

aconstantinou

Added by aconstantinou

Congress Bridge Bats

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Dylan

Abingdon, Virginia

Barter Theatre

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

Added by sandra1

Bristol, Virginia

Birthplace of Country Music Museum

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

Laken Brooks

Added by Laken Brooks

Wytheville, Virginia

Big Walker Lookout

A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.

Added by emilyhay

Wytheville, Virginia

Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

Hampton, Virginia

Emancipation Oak

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

Sydney Rose

Added by Sydney Rose

Arlington, Virginia

The Graves of Robert E. Lee's Garden

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

Added by evyatarguttman

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Military Aviation Museum

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

Added by wrdavis514

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Edgar Cayce A.R.E. Library

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Donora, Pennsylvania

Cement City

A neighborhood of houses made of poured concrete through a process invented by Thomas Edison.

andymcphee

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New York, New York

The High Line

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York, New York

The 'Ghostbusters' Firehouse

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Oliver Hong

Added by Oliver Hong

Bristol, Virginia

State Street

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Warm Springs, Virginia

Warm Springs Pools

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

hcw2rp

Added by hcw2rp

Charlottesville, Virginia

The Raven Room

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Added by bondsarah007

Richmond, Virginia

Edgar Allan Poe Museum

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Added by cryowulf

Lander, Wyoming

The Sinks

This canyon is named for a unique geologic formation where the river vanishes underground near the mouth of the canyon and reappears farther down.

Added by naomistarr

Thermopolis, Wyoming

Hot Springs State Park

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

Added by ianlefk

Laramie, Wyoming

Lincoln Highway Monument

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

Added by iamdanmarshall