Places neonsewers Wants to Go

The former home of elite checkers battles of the Capital Pool Checkers Club.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Chef Ashleigh Shanti serves up a classic Appalachian fish fry.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

This site in Caldwell County is the location where the Cherokee and Catawba are said to have entered a peace treaty.

Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

A living history village recreates a vanished 19th century community.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

A collection of abstract sculptures by a former tobacco auctioneer turned outsider artist.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.