Places ashley8918 Wants to Go

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Surrounded by traditional homes, this Tolkien-esque dwelling stands out on a quiet street in suburban Maryland.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.