Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

A remote monument to one of the fiercest battles fought by the Victorian British Army.

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.

Considered the most remote point in the entire world.

This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.