Places anhogan Wants to Go

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

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

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

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.