Places Amy s Wants to Go

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

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

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.