Places matthewmetcalfe Wants to Go

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.