Places riche103 Wants to Go

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

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

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the middle of the Canadian prairie.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

The remains of the worst military aviation accident in Canada's history.

An arresting temple full of mosaics as colorful as the politician they memorialize.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

A long-abandoned provincial prison left to crumble in the frigid air of Ontario.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

This partially completed dam was simply abandoned after nearly destroying the city it was built to service.