Places Katherinebear Wants to Go

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

This fourth-generation family business is reviving West Virginia's historic tradition of salt-making.

This heritage museum highlights the importance of the dairy cow as a vital part of rural Maryland's past, present, and future.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

The niches over the western entrance of Westminster Abbey honor individuals from the 20th century who gave their lives for their Christian beliefs.

Once a sewer culvert, this road tunnel now offers cyclists and pedestrians a subterranean stroll under the C&O Canal.