Places MrsSchmidt Wants to Go

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

Inside this 150-year-old barn turned antique shop is a vast array of items for curios hunters.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

This general store has stood in the same spot for well over a century.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

In an alcove of this historic library, you can find murals painted in the 1930s by an artist who went on to create some of Disney's most iconic animated films.

Beneath unsuspecting visitors feet, a capsule containing pieces of America’s civil rights history.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

Washington D.C.'s most famous pianist, composer, and bandleader still tickles the ivories outside Howard Theater.