Fort Meade, Maryland
Architect of the Capitol Archival Warehouse
A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.
Kensington, Maryland
One of the largest collections of Catalan literature and cultural materials outside of Spain, created by a community of 1960s expats.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.
Winchester, Virginia
Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.
Rockville, Maryland
The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.
Smith Island, Maryland
An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.
Scotland, Maryland
This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.
Lusby, Maryland
Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.
Lexington Park, Maryland
A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.
Romeno, Italy
A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.
Italy
According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.
San Vito di Cadore, Italy
While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.