Places beefjorky Wants to Go

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

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

More than 500 unique and specially designed cases collected by D.C.'s "Harmonica Case Man."

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

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

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

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

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

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

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