Washington, D.C.
Churchill and Mandela Call and Response
When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Washington, D.C.
The Sun Building
This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.
White Pine County, Nevada
Hamilton Ghost Town
A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.
Pisgah Forest, North Carolina
Sliding Rock
Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?
Brevard, North Carolina
Brevard White Squirrels
This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.
Asheville, North Carolina
Helen's Bridge
This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Blue Ghost Fireflies
These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.
Travelers Rest, South Carolina
Poinsett Bridge
The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.
Permanently Closed
Summerville, Georgia
Corpsewood Manor
Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.
White, Georgia
Old Car City
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.
Gotham, England
The Original Gotham
The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.
Sandwick, Scotland
Broch of Mousa
A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.
Northome, Minnesota
The Lost 40
A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.
Baltimore, Maryland
The Scarpetta House
A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.
Baltimore, Maryland
Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Baltimore, Maryland
Grave of John Wilkes Booth
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Washington, D.C.
Capitol Tile Room
In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.
Washington, D.C.
Lincoln Memorial Undercroft
A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.
Washington, D.C.
Daguerre Monument
Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.
Washington, D.C.
Godey Lime Kilns
A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.
Washington, D.C.
Water Gate at the Watergate Complex
Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.
Washington, D.C.
Washington City Canal Outfall
A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Historic Elevator at Potbelly
This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.
Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell McDonald's
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
