Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia
The Rosewell Plantation Ruins
This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia
This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.
Barryville, New York
Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.
Littleton, Colorado
The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Yellville, Arkansas
The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.
Peach Springs, Arizona
In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.
Kingman, Arizona
Don't blink or you'll miss it.
Phoenix, Arizona
Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.
Leupp, Arizona
Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.
Chloride, Arizona
All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.
Morristown, New Jersey
A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.
Tionesta, Pennsylvania
For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.
Linesville, Pennsylvania
"Where the ducks walk on fish."
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Flourtown, Pennsylvania
This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.