Charleston, South Carolina
Tavern at Rainbow Row
The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
South Burlington, Vermont
'Reverence' (Whales Tails)
A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.
New York, New York
New York Herald Monument
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
New York, New York
African Elephants Diorama
This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.
New York, New York
Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
New York, New York
One Times Square
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
New York, New York
Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
New York, New York
New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
Menands, New York
Albany Rural Cemetery
The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.
Boston, Massachusetts
Hood Milk Bottle
Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.
Dayton, Virginia
Mole Hill
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Barcelona, Spain
'El Petó de la Mort' ('The Kiss of Death')
A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.
Alcantarilha, Portugal
Capela dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones)
This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.
Charlottesville, Virginia
University of Virginia's Seven Society
The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Monticello's Vegetable Garden and Fruitery
Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Jefferson Rock
This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Ruins of St. John's Episcopal Church
Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.
Concord, New Hampshire
Haunted Margaritas
This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.
Memphis, Tennessee
The Jungle Room at Graceland
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Tabernacle, New Jersey
Emilio Carranza Memorial
Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."
Manchester Township, New Jersey
Brooksbrae Brick Factory
Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.
Salem, Massachusetts
Proctor's Ledge
A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.
Providence, Rhode Island
Nori the Dragon
A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.
Alcoa, Tennessee
Millennium Manor Castle
One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.
