Places FiZ Wants to Go

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

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

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.