Places tishtishtish Wants to Go

Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

The center preserves and houses artifacts ranging from the colonial era to modern times from across Appalachia.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.

Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.

A collection of obscure and vintage equipment used for television, film, and radio.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

A cannonball from Union forces battling John Hunt Morgan made this church a permanent home.

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

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.