Hi friend,

I've been spending a lot of my recent weekends in places with a little more story than the usual tourist stop - a Cherokee chief's home, a Civil War-era hotel with a haunted reputation, and a 2,000-year-old mummy tucked inside a university museum.

Chief Vann House in Chatsworth is the first one. Once the home of a wealthy Cherokee chief in North Georgia, it's easy to drive past without knowing what it actually represents - wealth, power, and a story that gets more complicated the more you learn about it.

Kennesaw House in Marietta (Marietta History Center) is another. It's tied to the Great Locomotive Chase and has a long-standing reputation for being haunted - the kind of place where the history and the ghost stories are honestly hard to separate.

And then there's the mummy at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. Most people don't expect to run into ancient Egyptian artifacts in the middle of a college campus, but it's one of those "wait, this is here?" finds.

None of these are your typical day-trip picks. But I still think about all three, weeks later - and honestly, that's usually how I know a place was worth the drive.

If you're the type who'd rather understand a place than just photograph it, I think you'd get something out of all three.

I'd love to help you find places like this wherever you're headed next, the ones with a real story, not just a postcard view.

Talk soon,​
​Yanitza

If you missed these:

• ​Chief Vann House - Cherokee history and the story most road trips skip
• ​Kennesaw House - Civil War history and a haunted reputation in Marietta
• Carlos Museum Mummy - Ancient Egypt hiding in the middle of Atlanta

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