Places Ian Grafmuller Wants to Go

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.