Places mfayesimon Wants to Go

Originally known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Norristown, this campus stands as a fascinating piece of medical history.

A secret, ethereal waterfall beneath the picturesque gardens.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

The longest-covered bridge in the state of Maryland.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

America's first public mental health facility.

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

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

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

A historic canal winds through a unique, swampy landscape.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

The tabby ruin is Savannah’s oldest surviving structure.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.