Places Edward Denny Wants to Go

Rendering of a comic-book hero turned Luxembourg national symbol.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.

Constructed by the younger brother of George Washington.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

Constructed during the roaring 20s, this restored historic hotel recalls its past as home to the first in-hotel distillery.

Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Honoring combatants from Portsmouth who served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.

The branches of this sprawling cedar tree are laden with wishes big and small.

A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

A journey along this trail means indulging in a slice of nostalgia.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

Once used by British troops to gather water prior to the Battle of Bladensburg.

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

A historic Maryland home that once belonged to a man who has been called "the most insignificant" U.S. Supreme Court justice.

The final resting place of a physician rescued during the bombardment of Fort McHenry.

Evidence of a long-ago crush remains scratched into the glass at this historic Maryland House.