Places McCarthy727 Wants to Go

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

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

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

America's first public mental health facility.

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

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.