Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

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

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

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

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.