Places A Bear Wants to Go

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

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

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

Contrary to popular belief, this secluded statue doesn't represent Pennsylvania's founder.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

A promising candidate for the lost rock laid by George Washington was unearthed, but the hunt is still on.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

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.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

A granite monument honors a beloved World War II canine mascot.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.