Places petracca5 Wants to Go

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

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

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

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

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

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

Long before the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, dinosaurs roamed the area and left their footprints on this bridge.

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.