Places Elvenar Wants to Go

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

Hundreds of preserved dinosaur footprints can be found along a hiking trail in this small village.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

An elegant German-style resort overlooking the Potomoc River.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

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

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Bizarre Cavern.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”