Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

Once considered a massive folly, this "miracle floodgate" saved its town from tsunami devastation in 2011.

An underground venue, buried for 200 years, now open as a unique whisky tasting venue.

Early Nazi prison for political prisoners.

This is the place where U2’s lead singer got his nickname.

Once an exclusive hunting club for U.S. presidents, now a wildlife conservation area.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

Massive gannet colony perched on cliffs, with hiking trails and an interpretation center.

This historic house was the birthplace and childhood home of the 35th president of the United States.

One of the few Tudor palaces in Germany, which hosted a historic WWII meeting.

Experience the pivotal Civil War battle at this interactive museum.

This Pennsylvania structure, the oldest building in Gettysburg, was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Feel what it would have been like to live in Gettysburg during the pivotal Civil War battle.

When a mechanical flaw rewrote aviation rules.

Soldiers’ scrawls turned into history’s signatures.

The national memorial to France's "Second D-Day."

A burial ground restored by a determined Boy Scout, where fragments of America’s early history rest beneath weathered stones.

Wildflower-filled 19th-century cemetery is a bucolic final resting place.

The forest hides a cemetery where members of the British Legion rest in peace.

The site of the daring river crossing that changed the course of the American Revolution.

Ninety years after his execution, the man accused of starting the Reichstag fire was given a final resting place.

A surprising relic of WWII, sitting boldly in a Marseille street.

One of the 20th century’s most famous businessmen is buried in Houston’s most prestigious cemetery.

Europe's longest Hornbeam tunnel.

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.