Places A Bear Wants to Go

Literal "money laundering."

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

100 years later, they're still down there.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

An American flag was erected for every day that passed during the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Each step is a mere four inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

Could it have picked a better place to land?