Places NG3894 Wants to Go

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

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

This roadside stand packs 300-plus varieties of tomatoes, from "Maiden's Fire" to "Kaleidoscopic Jewel."

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

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

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

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

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The last vestige of a once substantial orchard and farm in the suburbs of Northern Virginia.

This site is believed to be connected to the oldest house in Arlington County.

The local community brought back this land to transform it into a nature preserve.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.