Places A Bear Wants to Go

More than 500 unique and specially designed cases collected by D.C.'s "Harmonica Case Man."

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

Overshadowed by quilts, the artistry of these patterned textiles went underappreciated for too long.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.