Places atkinsmicheller Wants to Go

Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.