Baltimore, Maryland
Grave of John Wilkes Booth
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Washington, D.C.
This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.
Washington, D.C.
The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.
Lyndhurst, Virginia
This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.
Afton, Virginia
A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Atlanta, Georgia
Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.
Atlanta, Georgia
3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta, Georgia
One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.
Atlanta, Georgia
The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Savannah, Georgia
An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.
Lorton, Virginia
The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Washington, D.C.
This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.
Washington, D.C.
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Vienna, Virginia
Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.
Fairfax, Virginia
A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.
Sterling, Virginia
These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.