Arlington, Virginia
Headstone-Eating Trees
The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland
Cedar Hill Cemetery
A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.
Los Angeles, California
La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Utrecht, Netherlands
Museum Speelklok
This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.
Esch-sur-Sûre, Luxembourg
Esch-sur-Sûre Castle
Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.
Waimes, Belgium
Signal de Botrange
The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.
Ypres, Belgium
The Yorkshire Trench
In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bock Casemates
An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.
Ypres, Belgium
Menin Gate Memorial
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Paris, France
Treaty of Paris Plaque
A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.
Permanently Closed
Tustin, California
Tustin Blimp Hangar #2
This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.
London, England
Dick Whittington’s Cat
A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.
Ypres, Belgium
The Birthplace of 'In Flanders Fields'
The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.
Bethesda, Maryland
Madonna of the Trail
She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.
Washington, D.C.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.
London, England
London Transport Museum Depot
The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.
Beatenberg, Switzerland
St. Beatus Cave
Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.
Bern, Switzerland
The Child Eater of Bern
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Washington, D.C.
Washington Aqueduct Emergency Pumping Station
These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.
Arlington, Virginia
Pentagon Cable Crossing Sign
Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.
Washington, D.C.
Owney the Postal Dog
A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.
Washington, D.C.
Holodomor Memorial
An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.
Arlington, Virginia
Pierre L’Enfant’s (Second) Gravesite
The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.
Washington, D.C.
C&O Boat Elevator Ruins
This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.
