Places windandrust Wants to Go

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

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

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

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

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

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

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

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.