Places bmoresa Wants to Go

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

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

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

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.