Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Birthplace of the Banana Split
A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.
Richmond, Virginia
The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.
St. Augustine, Florida
It's a pretty creepy lock-up.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.
Waterbury, Vermont
The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.
Sharpsburg, Maryland
A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
New York, New York
The "Seinfeld" diner.
Cabin John, Maryland
The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.
Newtown, Connecticut
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.
Alpine, New Jersey
Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.
Washington, D.C.
Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.
Washington, D.C.
You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.
Washington, D.C.
There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.
Milton, Massachusetts
The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.
Dover, New Hampshire
A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.
Hull, Massachusetts
The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.
Rochester, Massachusetts
Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.
Baltimore, Maryland
A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.
Quincy, Massachusetts
From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.
Vienna, Virginia
A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.
Colmar Manor, Maryland
Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.
Kissimmee, Florida
Would you like a sleeper hold with that?