Places TeamDD Wants to Go

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

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

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

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

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Bizarre Cavern.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

One of the oldest surviving Swedish-American homes in the United States.

In 1787, a group of delegates met at this very spot to drink, be merry, and ratify the Constitution of the United States.