Places Crawdie Wants to Go

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

The Acropolis of this little-visited Mayan archaeological site offers great views of Chiapas’s Lake District.

One of Mexico's least-visited archaeological sites is tucked away inside a theme park.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

The striking and little-touristed ruins of an ancient city destroyed and rebuilt by the Aztecs.

The ruins of the "place of the cloud snake" sit in the middle of an urban environment.

A small collection of iguana-infested ruins hides amid Cancún's bustling hotel zone.

Fiery-hot river rocks make soup sizzle at this restaurant showcasing indigenous Chinantec cuisine.

A grand entrance to one of the world's smallest Chinatowns.