Washington, D.C.
Congressional Cemetery
The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Washington, D.C.
Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.
Washington, D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
Washington, D.C.
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Washington, D.C.
The Adams Memorial
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
Washington, D.C.
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.
Washington, D.C.
Catacombs of Washington, D.C.
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.
Washington, D.C.
The Capitol Stones
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Washington, D.C.
National Capitol Columns
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Washington, D.C.
Georgetown Waterfront
The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.
Culver City, California
Holy Cross Cemetery
A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.
Inglewood, California
Randy's Donuts
A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford Circus Fire Memorial
Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.
Hartford, Connecticut
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.
Hartford, Connecticut
Ancient Burying Ground
The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.
Hartford, Connecticut
Colonial America Tavern Signs Collection
The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.
Hartford, Connecticut
The Mark Twain House & Museum
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Hartford, Connecticut
Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
New Haven, Connecticut
Grave of Midnight Mary
Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.
New Haven, Connecticut
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.
New Haven, Connecticut
Skull and Bones Tomb
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
New Haven, Connecticut
East Rock Park
Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.
New Haven, Connecticut
Grave of Sarah Winchester
Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.
New Haven, Connecticut
Crypt at Center Church-on-the-Green
137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.
