Atlanta, Georgia
Switchyards Ping Pong Stadium
The only subterranean ping pong table in Atlanta.
Places edited
Places this traveler has helped edit.
Atlanta, Georgia
The only subterranean ping pong table in Atlanta.
Orlando, Florida
A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.
Elmira, New York
The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.
Washington, D.C.
This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.
Concord, Massachusetts
One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.
Akron, New York
A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.
San Antonio, Texas
What was meant as an innocent piece of art has earned a reputation as the "mansplaining sculpture."
Manassas, Virginia
Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.
Orange, Connecticut
The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.
San Antonio, Texas
The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.
Port Arthur, Texas
Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.
Washington, D.C.
A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.
Kabul, Afghanistan
This monument honors the life of a long-suffering lion whose story captivated the world.
Washington, D.C.
One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.
Herndon, Virginia
Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.
Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.
Fenwick Island, Delaware
A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.
Washington, D.C.
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
Laurel, Maryland
A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.
Mechanicsville, Virginia
The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.
Washington, D.C.
A memorial to a shareholder activist feared by CEOs around the United States.
Memphis, Tennessee
The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.