Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.