Places jamieherzing8 Wants to Go

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

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

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The world's only statue dedicated to the greatest Great Dane in comic strip history.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.