Places butson Wants to Go

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This century-old bakery produces 18,000 loaves of traditional Cuban bread every day.

Kitschy nautical-themed bar has offered mermaid shows and underwater ballet since 1956.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Many of the most significant figures in American history once hopped on a stagecoach in this alleyway on their way to more noteworthy destinations.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.