Places nikisb Wants to Go

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

This homestead was occupied by Union soldiers, who believed the owners were signaling Confederate forces.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

The longest covered bridge in Delaware.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

The Hollywood home of Kermit the Frog and Yoda used to be Charlie Chaplin's film studio.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.