Places Crin Ge Wants to Go

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

Bizarre Cavern.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.