Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

This open-air museum was originally a World War II testing ground for German missiles and rockets.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

The ruins of a rehabilitation center for World War II vets can be found in the Westminster Ponds Conservation area.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

This former military airfield's claim to fame came from a lucky accident during the Second World War.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

An obscure federal monument honors the French diplomat who served as Ambassador to the U.S. during WWI.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

The only international border marker within the United States.

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.