Places declansalcido Wants to Go

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

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.