Places Ian Hall Wants to Go

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.

A stone nook where Frederick Douglass escaped the world to think, read, and write.

This woven willow statue represents a popular local breed of beef cattle in SW Scotland

A rare example of pre-Revolutionary war Georgian-style architecture in Virginia's Piedmont region.

The McCandless Collection preserves one of the region's most distinctive collections of rare Mopar vehicles, historic race cars, and vintage automobilia celebrating American automotive heritage.

A ruined tower house fought over in a family feud.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

This 15-foot tall obelisk commemorating the Philadelphia-Baltimore railroad connection sat neglected for over a century.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum showcases fabric and mixed media work by artists of great international renown as well as local and outsider artists.

An elegant German-style resort overlooking the Potomoc River.

A factory store where more than 150 years of American pottery history is stacked—and still made just beyond the showroom.

This family-run roadside motel is an ode to the mid-century motor era.

A windswept sandstone overlook offers sweeping views across an ancient plateau.

A commemoration of child soldiers during a fearful battle of the Civil War.

This campus monument honors Katherine Johnson, who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first human spaceflight and safely land Apollo 11 on the moon.

This deserted island off the coast of Philadelphia is only visitable a few days every year; once industrialized, it is now an ecological marvel.

Contrary to popular belief, this secluded statue doesn't represent Pennsylvania's founder.

A miraculous well, hidden away in the middle of a meadow.

An ancient cave with connections to the American Revolution.

This 80-foot towering concrete structure, complete with wheel, remains a stark reminder of the coal mining that took place here between 1904 and 1966.

A relatively intact tower house still offering sweeping views of the surrounding countryside