Places riedermarcus Wants to Go

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Sharks, stingrays, and turtles swim in the pools at this former elementary school.

The second narrowest street in England is only 28 inches wide.

An advertising mural tempering the behavior of Charleston’s children since the late 1800s.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A cannonball from Union forces battling John Hunt Morgan made this church a permanent home.

Many mysteries surround these objects questioning whether they are cannonballs at all.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."