Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

The Decoy Capital of the World.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

This 16-foot, intricately detailed model of the Gearing-class destroyer has been called the most detailed model ship ever built.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.

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