Places DrChopSuey Wants to Go

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

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

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

This small island declared independence from South Korea in the hopes of attracting tourists.

Natural rock formations resembling monks in hats inspire folk legends.

A thriving surf community exists in relative remoteness along the former boundary between North and South Korea.

Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.