Places DrChopSuey Wants to Go

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

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

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

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

Residing quietly in suburban Maryland, this tree has a star-powered history and was grown from a seed that journeyed to space on Apollo 14.

A museum dedicated to Latvian history in the heart of Maryland.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.