Places nataliebopp Wants to Go

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

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

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

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

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

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.