Places leeann365 Wants to Go

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

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

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.