Delta, Alabama
Cheaha Mountain
The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.
Places eharjes Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Huntsville, Alabama
Dead Children's Playground
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Goldie 1971 - The Fallen Robot
A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.
Florence, Alabama
Frank Lloyd Wright-Rosenbaum House
This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.
Montevallo, Alabama
Tinglewood Carvings
Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Dismals Canyon
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Seale, Alabama
The Museum Of Wonder
A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.
Seale, Alabama
The Drive-Thru Museum
A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.
Scottsboro, Alabama
Unclaimed Baggage Center
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Washington, D.C.
International Temple of the Order of the Eastern Star
Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.
Washington, D.C.
Mary's Garden
An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.
Washington, D.C.
Glenwood Cemetery's Chainsaw Sculptures
The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.
Washington, D.C.
Ruins of the Columbian Cannon Foundry
These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.
Washington, D.C.
NIST Newton Apple Tree
A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.
Washington, D.C.
Washington Monument Lightning Rod
The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.
Washington, D.C.
Abandoned Drawbridge Control Room
The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.
Washington, D.C.
Southwest Duck Pond
This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Peirce Mill Spy Station
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
Washington, D.C.
Temperance Fountain
A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.
Washington, D.C.
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Washington, D.C.
Memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II
An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.
Washington, D.C.
Hecht Company Warehouse
Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Uncle Beazley the Triceratops
A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.
Washington, D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
