Places EricTissue Wants to Go

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

First built around 1848, this bridge was destroyed by arson, but original timbers are included in the replacement.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

Its diverse collection of computers and technology spans the ages.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

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

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

One of the largest collections of Catalan literature and cultural materials outside of Spain, created by a community of 1960s expats.

A series of recreated fortifications mark George Orwell's path through the Spanish Civil War.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

The inscribed stone at Kilnasaggart is a remnant from nearly a millennium ago.