Places A Bear Wants to Go

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

An industrial waste tourist attraction.

Step past the gas pumps and into a fine French bistro.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

A journey along this trail means indulging in a slice of nostalgia.

The oldest automobile museum in the United States.

Hidden behind an empty field resides this early 19th-century cemetery.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

In a New Jersey cemetery, the final resting place of two brothers who fell victim to a deadly mushroom.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.

These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.

Said to be haunted, this tower was constructed by a sugar importer as a gift to his wife.

This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

A well-preserved example of an early industrial operation in the northeastern United States.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

One of the oldest surviving bars in the United States, located at the site of the last skirmish of the American Revolution.