Places LaughingCrow Wants to Go

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

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

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

An original apothecary from 1792.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."