Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

The library of every book lover's dreams.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

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

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.