Places exvine Wants to Go

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

Τhis feline monument commemorates fallen soldiers on a field that saw many, many battles.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

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

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

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

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

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

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.