Places dbsdream Wants to Go

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

A stone nook where Frederick Douglass escaped the world to think, read, and write.

A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

A centuries-old stone pagoda from Japan stands among cherry trees beside the National Mall Tidal Basin.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

Amphibious mascots display a quirkier side to this luxury hotel's rich history.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.