Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

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

The whole world in one water tank.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

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.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

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

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

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