Places Tansy Wants to Go

The gravestones in this historic cemetery are carved with mysterious faces.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Bizarre Cavern.