Places Ian Hall Wants to Go

It is the oldest remaining stairway William Penn created to give Philadelphia citizens access to the port area.

The Pulitzer Prize winning writer and actor from “The Exorcist,” Jason Miller, is immortalized with a statue that contains his ashes.

Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.

The museum is located in one of the two remaining military gymnasiums left in the United States.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This remarkable 125-year-old building has survived a bank heist, a rooftop dragon, and more than a century of changing businesses; today, it lives on as FairyCross Bottle Shop.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

The entire history of Mack Trucking Company in one place along with vintage and experimental vehicles, movie props, and engineering archives from over 100 of building vehicles.

As the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, these halls contain everything from dinosaur bones to biological samples collected by Lewis and Clark.

This Art Deco movie palace turned performing arts center lets audiences experience the glamor of showbiz in its heyday.

All websites claim that the origin of this obelisk is both unknown and mysterious. However, adding a single piece of information solves the mystery entirely.

A small piece of Scotland sits in a park in Lower Manhattan.

A solitary arbor with a unique pedigree.

The iconic grave markers from George A. Romero's 1968 horror masterpiece,Night of the Living Dead.

Dating back roughly 240 million years to the Triassic period, it was left by a large, 12-foot-long crocodile ancestor called a Chirotherium or "hand-beast".

This massive circular sculpture may not be a portal to other worlds, but it does inspire the mind to imagine them.

A centuries-old Virginia mill pond is also an outdoor classroom where history is told through recipes.

Amid miles of wooded trails lies the story of one of America’s earliest free Black communities.

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

This park offers one of the easiest ways to paddle into a Chesapeake landscape that has looked much the same for centuries.

Some museums preserve beautiful things; this museum preserves hard work.

Yorktown’s grandest colonial home still wears the scars of the siege that helped end the American Revolution.