Places Nox Wants to Go

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

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.