Lusby, Maryland
Calvert Cliffs State Park
Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Washington, D.C.
Bootlegging Room in the Cannon House Office Building
During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.
London, England
Twinings Tea Shop
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Washington, D.C.
Carnegie Library of Washington, D.C.
D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.
Washington, D.C.
Maine Avenue Fish Market
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
Madrid, Spain
Museo de América
This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.
Baltimore, Maryland
Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum
The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Baldwin's Book Barn
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Washington, Connecticut
Jason's Haunts
New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.
Farmington, Connecticut
The Grave of Foone
The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.
Hartford, Connecticut
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.
Hartford, Connecticut
The Mark Twain House & Museum
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Paris, France
Le Stryge
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
Martha's Vineyard Gingerbread Houses
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
London, England
Viking Tombstone
This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.
London, England
Walbrook Skulls
It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.
Halethorpe, Maryland
Maryland's 3rd Congressional District
A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.
Venice, Italy
Torcello Bell Tower
Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.
London, England
Tower of London Barbary Lion Skulls
The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.
Venice, Italy
Piraeus Lion
Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.
Madrid, Spain
Atocha Station Tropical Garden
A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.
Pompeii, Italy
Stone Phalluses of Pompeii
The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.
London, England
The Lewis Chessmen
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
