Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

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

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

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

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.