Places BlueGranite1 Wants to Go

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.