Places amaranthine Wants to Go

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

Rubbing the buttons along this statue's coat is considered good luck.

Take a seat and hear a song by the composer Frédéric Chopin.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

On the outskirts of Pennsylvania’s capital city, a reminder of the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.

These unique rock formations were created during the Ice Age.

Take a trip to the past aboard a 1920s railcar or open flatcar for a scenic ride through Maryland farm country.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.