Places Laflaneure Wants to Go

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Bizarre Cavern.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

One of the largest collections of Catalan literature and cultural materials outside of Spain, created by a community of 1960s expats.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

The Decoy Capital of the World.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.