Places mariahpahl Wants to Go

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This nondescript row house in downtown Washington, D.C., was the home of a very secretive group for well over a century

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

One of the last mosaic tile facades found in the city.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

The tabby ruin is Savannah’s oldest surviving structure.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Giant trolls run this farm!

A 1,000-foot-long railroad tunnel under Shavers Fork connected the towns during West Virginia's logging boom until its closure in 1985.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

In the middle of an abandoned stretch of old Route 50 lies a tombstone that weighs three tons.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Ornate and vibrant, this temple is a colorful place of worship for Columbus's Thai and Laotian communities.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

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