Places cait7911 Wants to Go

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

True to his word, George Swanson is buried in his white 1984 Corvette.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

A quaint village in Western New York named after Alexander Hamilton's beloved sister-in-law.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

One of Cincinnati's greatest fighters once trained at a now defunct gym in this Over-The-Rhine neighborhood.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.

The tombstone of the founder of the lost town of Ogletown is now stuck inside a traffic median.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.