Washington, D.C.
Abandoned Drawbridge Control Room
The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Washington, D.C.
The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.
Hinckley, Ohio
Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.
Stuart, Florida
In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.
Mount Baldy, California
Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Eureka, Utah
These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.
Xilitla, Mexico
Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.
Bloomington, Indiana
Tucked away in the forests of Indiana resides an abandoned waterslide that is now a popular graffiti haunt.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.
San Francisco, California
A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.
Lovell, Wyoming
Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.
Seale, Alabama
A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.
Tarpon Springs, Florida
This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."
DeLand, Florida
The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.
West Palm Beach, Florida
This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
Ochopee, Florida
The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.
Miami, Florida
With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
Opa-locka, Florida
America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Ormond Beach, Florida
The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
Titusville, Florida
A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.
St. Augustine, Florida
Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.
Gainesville, Florida
Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.