Places khwilt Wants to Go

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

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

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.