Washington, D.C.
Space Window at the Washington National Cathedral
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Washington, D.C.
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
New York, New York
The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Chicago, Illinois
An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.
Atlanta, Georgia
This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.
Washington, D.C.
One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.
Cleveland, Ohio
A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."
New York, New York
New York's oldest magic store.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Detroit, Michigan
The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.
Paradise, Michigan
These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.
Grayling, Michigan
At the top of a local ski mountain is a hidden cemetery containing the graves of just two soldiers.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.
Naubinway, Michigan
More than 150 snowmobiles fill this Michigan museum.
Kalkaska, Michigan
This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.
Traverse City, Michigan
For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.
Detroit, Michigan
Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.