Places Ethan Silvers Wants to Go

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.

West Virginia’s largest bog is home to rare carnivorous plants.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

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

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

The parking lot of a northern Virginia shopping center is host to a monument to Korea’s greatest naval commander, to include a scale model replica of the Turtle Boat he made famous.

The house where Robert E. Lee planned the Battle of Antietam is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Civil War soldier.

Colonial Williamsburg was home to one of the earliest institutions in North America dedicated to educating Black children.

Northern Virginia’s iconic Vietnamese shopping center.

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

A literal in-depth look at one of the United States' most cherished coal mines and the questionable working conditions of its laborers

The woman whose immortal cell line continues to shape scientific research was buried near her birthplace in a grave that was left unmarked for nearly 60 years.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

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

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.