Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.