Places kensears37 Wants to Go

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

‘Bush the old fire dog died of poison July 5th, 1869. RIP.’

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.