Places sburke4444 Wants to Go

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.