Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

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

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

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

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

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

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.