Places apojudy Wants to Go

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

Using a massive antenna made up of five miles of wire, two scientists tuned into organic radio waves from the planet Jupiter.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

The birthplace of the Herndon Gas Company.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

A classic mystery spot complete with spots that are said to make you shrink or grow when you stand on them.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.