Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

Originally dubbed "Retirement" by the Navy Commodore who built it in 1780, this beautiful mansion is now the centerpiece of a suburban community park.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

A small brick parlor house and artist's studio located in the wilderness is surrounded by imposing suburban palaces.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

A highway marker that honors a former spy plane pilot and local hero.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.