Places altabisz Wants to Go

Engraved in stone here are the signatures of everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence.

This small hilltop church weaves the urban history of Washington, D.C. with the national history of the United States.

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

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Scary stories haunt this wooden bridge.

This grove was planted more than a century ago by the War Mothers of World War I.

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

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

Small indie movie theater that shows documentaries and unique films and has a cocktail bar with great drinks.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A tribute to the forgotten origins of American religious freedom.

A popular supernatural horror film based in this quaint Maryland village made it a destination for paranormal pilgrimages, but unbeknownst to many, a real rise awaits on a lonely hill on the edge of town, steeped in local legend

Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.