Places chip520 Wants to Go

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

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

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

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

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

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

The naval commander’s proudest moment in battle is memorialized in this unique tomb at Arlington Cemetery.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

A public art jibe at one of the United States’ oldest and longest-serving senators.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.