Places cruiserbob Wants to Go

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A medieval church built up to defend its village.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

A local prank turned town icon.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.