Places Ancientproof Wants to Go

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.