Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

Literal "money laundering."

The oldest house in Washington, D.C. wasn't originally constructed in the nation's capital.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

These otherworldly formations were shaped over millions of years by the forces of nature.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

The majestic, sacred tree is represented on this piece of public infrastructure.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

What many consider the original prime meridian and westernmost point of the old world.

This ingenious engineering solution was built to stop the "theft" of canal water.

These airport hangars are now a bustling shopping center with only hints of its past still lingering.

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

More than 20,000 salt and pepper shakers from across the globe call this museum home.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.