Places Sea Wants to Go

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

A cityscape of burial tombs that you can easily lose yourself in.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

The mall's looks were inspired by the cowboy extras who used to meet up—and cause real trouble—at this Hollywood hub.