Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.