Places scottjung Wants to Go

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.