Places scottishrose1028 Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

America's first federal monument.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.