Places adamthehistorianghosthunter Wants to Go

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

This Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.

Originally dubbed "Retirement" by the Navy Commodore who built it in 1780, this beautiful mansion is now the centerpiece of a suburban community park.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

One of the oldest surviving lock houses on the Ohio River.

Designed by Horace Trumbauer in 1893, this Gothic-style castle is now a home for academics.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

The corporeal remains of Napoleon III's dentist rest under this 15-story obelisk.