Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A man's home is his castle.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.