Queens, New York
Fort Totten
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
Times Square Hum
A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.
New York, New York
Gimbel's Bridge
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
New York, New York
Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Moravian Pottery & Tile Works Museum
A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola Graffiti Bridge
A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.
St. Augustine, Florida
Castillo de San Marcos
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
St. Augustine, Florida
Treasury Street
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
Key West, Florida
Pan Am's First Office
The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.
Ormond Beach, Florida
Dummett Sugar Mill Ruins
The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
St. Augustine, Florida
Old Spanish Trail Zero Milestone
In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.
Chiefland, Florida
Manatee Springs State Park
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Seattle, Washington
Hammering Man
This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.
Seattle, Washington
Museum of Pop Culture
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle Underground
A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.
Washington, D.C.
Walter Johnson Statue
This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.
Washington, D.C.
General Sheridan's Horse Rienzi Winchester
This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.
Washington, D.C.
USS Missouri Model Ship
The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.
Washington, D.C.
Cher Ami
A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.
Washington, D.C.
Washington Monument Marble Stripe
Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.
Washington, D.C.
NASA Full Scale Wind Tunnel Propeller
While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.
Washington, D.C.
The Preamble in License Plates
The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.
