Places gardenglories Wants to Go

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

Decorative folk arts dot the countryside barns of Berks County. 

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

A local prank turned town icon.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

Political activist and writer Thomas Paine once lodged at this location.

Among the may artifacts on display is a clock made of 50,000 individual pieces of wood.

This museum focuses on the history and culture of the German settlers in Pennsylvania.

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

Striking natural chalk bluffs that rise dramatically along the Tombigbee River.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.