Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

Home to two notable early-20th-century Black educators, Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill.

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.

The former home of the woman who successfully fought to integrate restaurants in Washington, D.C.

Washington D.C.'s most famous pianist, composer, and bandleader still tickles the ivories outside Howard Theater.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

One of the first Second Empire-style buildings constructed in North America.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.

This cypress grove is a unique site considering these trees are not native to the region.

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

The site of a famous samurai duel.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?