Scarbro, West Virginia
Whipple Company Store
Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Scarbro, West Virginia
Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.
Oak Hill, West Virginia
A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.
Springfield, Illinois
The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.
George Town, Cayman Islands
There is one corporation registered for every three square feet of space in this inconspicuous office building.
George Town, Cayman Islands
The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.
Gun Bay, Cayman Islands
A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.
West Bay, Cayman Islands
Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.
Baltimore, Maryland
A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Washington, D.C.
Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.
Groom, Texas
This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Williams, Arizona
An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.
St. Augustine, Florida
An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Chantilly, Virginia
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
Arlington, Virginia
The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.
Cape May, New Jersey
The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.
Scotland, Maryland
This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.