Places jeffmauree Wants to Go

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

In 1912, a broken section of the reservoir wall released millions of gallons of water and destroyed many homes downhill.

Feast on Caribbean classics from curry goat to black cake.

This alleyway was named to honor the memory of a beloved local dog.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

Feel what it would have been like to live in Gettysburg during the pivotal Civil War battle.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

Soldiers’ scrawls turned into history’s signatures.

This is the spot where the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War may have started.

This large stone residence served as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg between stints as a tavern.

This covered bridge was used by both Union and Confederate troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

Long before the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, dinosaurs roamed the area and left their footprints on this bridge.

This Civil War monument was designed by an eccentric architect and Gettysburg veteran.

First built around 1848, this bridge was destroyed by arson, but original timbers are included in the replacement.

Washed out by the Johnstown Flood in 1889, the surviving portion of the original two-span bridge now resides at Fishing Creek.

The smallest covered bridge in Maryland.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

A student art project turned into a neighborhood fixture in Toronto.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.