Places marykate Wants to Go

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

This plaque marks a place where one of Hollywood’s most famous dancers got his start.

A museum and research center dedicated to preserving the history of Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.