Middletown, Maryland
The (First) Washington Monument
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Corolla, North Carolina
One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.
Newburyport, Massachusetts
A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.
Germantown, Maryland
The whole world in one water tank.
Baltimore, Maryland
One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.
Baltimore, Maryland
This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.
Baltimore, Maryland
The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.
Baltimore, Maryland
A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.
Baltimore, Maryland
Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.
Crownsville, Maryland
This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.
Concord, Massachusetts
This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.
Concord, Massachusetts
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
Danvers, Massachusetts
Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Salem, Massachusetts
Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.
Washington, D.C.
The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.
Washington, D.C.
A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.
Boston, Massachusetts
Radical Bookstore and Community Space.