Places butson Wants to Go

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.

The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

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

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

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

A "house to which to flee" for settlers in colonial Pennsylvania.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

A comprehensive collection of toy and model trains, largely from the mid-20th century.

Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.

Long before the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, dinosaurs roamed the area and left their footprints on this bridge.

America's oldest drive-in movie theater has been in continuous operation since 1934.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.