Places donnatalarico Wants to Go

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

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

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

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

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

Once a sewer culvert, this road tunnel now offers cyclists and pedestrians a subterranean stroll under the C&O Canal.

More than 500 unique and specially designed cases collected by D.C.'s "Harmonica Case Man."

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

A small token of gratitude from freezing cold journalists who were given a warm haven while covering JFK's inauguration.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

"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!”

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.