Places dondoughty Wants to Go

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

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

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

This 16-foot, intricately detailed model of the Gearing-class destroyer has been called the most detailed model ship ever built.

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

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.