Places eapya Wants to Go

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

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

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

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

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

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.