Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

Depending on who you ask, this controversial treehouse is either a charmingly creative child's playhouse or an illegal encroachment on public land.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

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

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

The last remaining building in Washington, D.C., built by H.H. Richardson, one of America's most iconic architects.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

Literal "money laundering."

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

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

The first museum in the U.S. to address human rights issues in China.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

This apartment building designed by a notable Washington D.C. architect housed the Qing Dynasty's Legation.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

A public art jibe at one of the United States’ oldest and longest-serving senators.

The oldest house in Washington, D.C. wasn't originally constructed in the nation's capital.

An overlooked tribute to one of the most important peace deals in American history.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.