Places smj99 Wants to Go

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

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

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

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

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.