Places fawniedee Wants to Go

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Bizarre Cavern.

This massive sycamore tree has been labeled as one of the largest in the state.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

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

World's strongest whirlpool.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

The first musical instrument of its kind to be built in the United States—and the world’s tallest.

The replica western town of Shadowhawk was built by a former Hollywood actor in Smithfield, North Carolina.

One man's collection of found art, sculpture, and ephemera adorns his two side-by-side homes.

Spectacular 300-foot cliffs in a lush mountain canyon.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A wonderous place devoted to art and metal.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

A giant scrap metal troll rests his hands on top of a dilapidated building covered in graffiti.

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.