Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

Once the center of a thriving early Black community called Martinsburg.

Stockholm's famed ghost train is now on display at an art park in northern Sweden.

A few crumbling buildings and the occasional pipe sticking out of the ground are all that remains of the largest refugee camp in Sweden during World War II.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

The last early 20th-century schoolhouse in Fairfax County has galvanized the community and engendered a spirit of service among residents.

This Dalecarlian horse is about the size of a pinhead.

Live chainsaw carvings of tiki statues aim to keep a tradition with ancient roots alive in this small Delaware town.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

A collection of trees from various corners of the world call Stockholm University home.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

A medieval church that contains murals from famed artist Albertus Pictor.

One of Gettysburg’s least visited battlefield memorials is off the beaten path, but worth a visit.

The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.