Places nraeanderson Wants to Go

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.