Places topherc1 Wants to Go

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

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 clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

Ancient, mysterious stone altars are hidden among wild woods in central Italy.

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

The ancient ruins of an extinguished city amidst the bustle of a modern one.

The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.

Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.