Places NG3894 Wants to Go

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

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

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

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

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

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

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.