Places Crabeater Wants to Go

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

One of the first Second Empire-style buildings constructed in North America.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

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

The company moved out of its sprawling headquarters, leaving plenty of traces behind.

When oil was discovered just outside of Pittsburgh, the city became home to this regional stock market.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.