Places Hheeaatthh Wants to Go

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.