Places KR Peart Wants to Go

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

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

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

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

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

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

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

This house was once the location of Frelinghuysen University.

Small indie movie theater that shows documentaries and unique films and has a cocktail bar with great drinks.

This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.

This map, on display in the Library of Congress, and one of only seven known to exist, is the very first map of the United States.

An 18th-century townhouse that once hosted guests of the president.

The house where Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation.

The revival of a classic Art Deco theater.