Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

The house where Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation.

This Georgian-style house built in 1746 is the oldest surviving structure in Bladensburg.

George Washington once stopped by this house for dinner.

A historic cemetery with unique artwork, a Civil War fort, and also happens to be the site of the Battle of Bladensburg.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

An enigmatic concrete structure in a lakeside Toronto park raises more questions than answers.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

The final resting place of the father of American beekeeping.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

A glacial erratic in the shape of a foot rests in the woods of a restored oak savanna prairie.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

A waterfront landing pad designated for unidentified flying objects still awaits its first guest.

At 32 feet long, this swing is big enough for the whole family—and then some.