Places meredithp Wants to Go

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

Right next to departures—how convenient!

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

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

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

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

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

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

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