Places tikiman7 Wants to Go

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

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

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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.