Places kensears37 Wants to Go

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

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

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.