Places DrChopSuey Wants to Go

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

Garments from across the globe call this hidden gem home.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

It might look like a doghouse, but this small structure was actually built to house a spirit from Maya mythology.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.