Places BlueGranite1 Wants to Go

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

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

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.