Places AndiGirl Wants to Go

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.