Places GeneralWaffles Wants to Go

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

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

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 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

The whole world in one water tank.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

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