Winnetka, Illinois
The 'Home Alone' House
Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."
Places I've been
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Winnetka, Illinois
Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Where the notorious gang lived while on the run from the FBI.
Chicago, Illinois
A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.
Brooklyn, New York
Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.
Bronx, New York
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Bronx, New York
The famous author's cottage hideaway.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Cumberland, Maryland
Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."
Cumberland, Maryland
This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.
Baltimore, Maryland
This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.
Charleston, West Virginia
A lone grave is quietly tucked away in Kanawha Riflemen's Memorial Park.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.
Oak Hill, West Virginia
A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.
Kenova, West Virginia
Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.