Places kensears37 Wants to Go

The oldest playground in America.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

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

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.