Places judybass Wants to Go

Learn about the indigenous people of Japan's northernmost islands.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Explore a wealth of fossils in one of the most prolific dig sites in North America.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

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.

The elevator that makes it possible to fly American flags in bulk over the U.S. Capitol

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.