Places exvine Wants to Go

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Is this statue at Naumberg Cathedral the fairest of them all?

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

A garden full of metal sculptures that celebrate the double bass.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

Visitors to this Kentucky homestead turned museum are immediately transported back to the Antebellum south.

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.