Places Shawb1 Wants to Go

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The "Key of Keys" for Washington, D.C. and the apocryphal landing place for the military campaign that started George Washington's career is now at the bottom of a well.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

This sculpture pays homage to sailors that perished attempting to round Cape Horn.

An abandoned suspension bridge on the Falkland Islands is crumbling into the water.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

Commemorating the lives of a renowned humorist and a famed aviator who died in a plane crash in northern Alaska.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

A colossal concrete penguin announces this Montana town as the coldest spot in America. But is it really?