Places Temporary Hero Wants to Go

A giant ant model welcomes visitors to an exhibit about symbiotic organisms that live with army ant colonies.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

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

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

The saddest little diner in New York.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

An off the grid woodland retreat that harkens back to days long forgotten.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.