Places peregrine79 Wants to Go

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

This young woman's tombstone names her murderer, who is buried in the same cemetery.

In the middle of an abandoned stretch of old Route 50 lies a tombstone that weighs three tons.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.