Places jeffquinton Wants to Go

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This overlooked courtyard and museum celebrate Benjamin Franklin's life and achievements.

This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.

Once used by British troops to gather water prior to the Battle of Bladensburg.

Take a trip to the past aboard a 1920s railcar or open flatcar for a scenic ride through Maryland farm country.

This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.

This general store has stood in the same spot for well over a century.

This suburban park recalls the history of a famous tavern. Despite the name, it's no ordinary place!

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

A rural colonial settlement that contains the remains of a store and cooper.

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

This hidden treasure provides a charming access point along the south side of Baker Park.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

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

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.