Salem, Massachusetts
The Witch House of Salem
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Concord, Massachusetts
Walden Pond
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston's First Street
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
Savannah, Georgia
Rousakis Plaza Echo Square
"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.
St. Augustine, Florida
Pirate & Treasure Museum
Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.
Key West, Florida
Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
The Conch Republic
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
St. Marys, Georgia
Dungeness Ruins
Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Rock City
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Townsend, Tennessee
Tuckaleechee Caverns
Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Synchronous Fireflies of the Great Smoky Mountains
For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.
Permanently Closed
Sausalito, California
Gates Co-op Houseboat Community
A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.
Port Arthur, Australia
Port Arthur Penal Colony
Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.
Freycinet, Australia
Wineglass Bay
One of the best beaches in the entire world.
Sydney, Australia
Gould's Book Arcade
One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.
Sydney, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
George Washington Bathtub
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.
Athens, Wisconsin
45 X 90 Geographical Marker
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Peshtigo, Wisconsin
45th Parallel Marker
Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.
Chicago, Illinois
The Fountain of Time
A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's Peregrine Falcons
Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.
