Places allisonic Wants to Go

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

Constructed during the roaring 20s, this restored historic hotel recalls its past as home to the first in-hotel distillery.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

Sip colonial-era cocktails at this monthly recreation of a 1740 watering hole.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

This museum honors an African-American renaissance man of the early 18th century.

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.