Places stephsrs Wants to Go

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.