Niagara Falls, New York
Niagara Tesla Monument in New York
One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Arlington, Virginia
George Washington Memorial Parkway
This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.
Atlanta, Georgia
Junkman's Daughter
This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.
Marietta, Georgia
St. James Episcopal Cemetery
An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Monongahela Incline
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Church Brew Works
A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.
Permanently Closed
Tucson, Arizona
309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
San Luis Obispo, California
The Bells of El Camino Real
A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."
Benicia, California
Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet
The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.
Key West, Florida
Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Rome, Italy
The Aventine Keyhole
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Custer, South Dakota
Crazy Horse Memorial
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Paris, France
Paris Point Zero
This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
New Orleans, Louisiana
LaLaurie Mansion
This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.
Homestead, Florida
Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Schwangau, Germany
Neuschwanstein Castle
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
San Francisco, California
Exploratorium
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz Island
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
Dover, Delaware
Miles the Monster
The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.
Helen, Georgia
Nacoochee Mound
This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.
Memphis, Tennessee
The Jungle Room at Graceland
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Warm Springs, Georgia
Roosevelt’s Little White House
FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.
