Places keslar Wants to Go

Climb the first lighthouse commissioned on a Great Lake to a lookout with peaceful, panoramic views.

Relax over handcrafted ale and gastro-pub grub inside an iconic (and possibly haunted) train station.

This Art Deco movie palace turned performing arts center lets audiences experience the glamor of showbiz in its heyday.

This brewery infuses its beers and food with maple from a generations-old family farm. 

A small town in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, is home to a former world leader in stereoscopic photography.  

This historic estate was home to a girls’ seminary before housing Meadville’s first mayor.

Nature adventures await along this 1.2-mile scenic trail in a national wildlife refuge.

The hometown of movie legend, military officer and All-American guy next door, honors this great actor.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

The iconic grave markers from George A. Romero's 1968 horror masterpiece,Night of the Living Dead.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

A nine-hole golf course in Pennsylvania hasn't charged a greens fee since its founding in 1914.

Antiques and recycled art surround this cabin designed to resemble a 19th-century schoolhouse.

An abandoned railroad tunnel transformed into a creepy path for hikers and cyclists.

Fuel up on comfort food favorites at this local gem that’s also a national landmark.

Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

The former home of the "Father of Black History"

A hidden mid-city oasis, built for pollinators amid the concrete of federal buildings

This nondescript row house in downtown Washington, D.C., was the home of a very secretive group for well over a century

A poet’s rustic cabin, rescued from demolition and tucked into Rock Creek’s greenery

Two statues of the fictitious toy robots that ran afoul of local government

This one-time communal home of radical feminist activists was the first lesbian-related landmark on both the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites and the National Register of Historic Places

A centuries-old stone pagoda from Japan stands among cherry trees beside the National Mall Tidal Basin.

A purported 17th-century religious artifact with noteworthy associations to Catholic history in the U. S.