Places smj99 Wants to Go

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

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

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.