Places nicolaspratt Wants to Go

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

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.