Places amathison86 Wants to Go

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

Giant trolls run this farm!

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

The woman whose immortal cell line continues to shape scientific research was buried near her birthplace in a grave that was left unmarked for nearly 60 years.

A highway marker that honors a former spy plane pilot and local hero.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

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

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

The location where the American Revolution ended.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

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

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.