Places mikswockam Wants to Go

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

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

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

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

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

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

This rowhouse doubles as one of the most photographed spots in the nation's capital.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

This map, on display in the Library of Congress, and one of only seven known to exist, is the very first map of the United States.

National Mall monument to the inventor of the screw propeller.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.