Places ionajay Wants to Go

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This basilica is dedicated to two saints, one of which is known more for his famous quote.

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.