Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

Orcas on display and in the water.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.