Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

This marker at the entrance to the Humphreys Engineer Center honors the former Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Home to a 27 room house, this estate was crafted by Black entrepreneur Olander Banks Sr.

Originally dubbed "Retirement" by the Navy Commodore who built it in 1780, this beautiful mansion is now the centerpiece of a suburban community park.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

A small museum dedicated to taking the taboo out of all things related to poo.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

The last of Fairfax County's one-room schoolhouses.

This one-room schoolhouse played a significant role in the education of Black children for almost 100 years.

The only one-room schoolhouse remaining in Talbot County, Maryland.

Built in 1815, the stabilized ruins of the grist mill and sawmill are now gated, but interpretive displays on the features and functions of the mill preserve its history.

One of the last schoolhouses constructed in the early 20th-century still standing in Montgomery County.

The hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.

The whole world in one water tank.

This suburban park recalls the history of a famous tavern. Despite the name, it's no ordinary place!

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

A small brick parlor house and artist's studio located in the wilderness is surrounded by imposing suburban palaces.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.