Elizabeth, New Jersey
Arthur Kill Vertical Bridge
Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.
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Elizabeth, New Jersey
Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Alexandria, Scotland
Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.
Glasgow, Scotland
Home to one of the most popular teams in Scottish football history.
London, England
An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.
Reading, Pennsylvania
This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.
New York, New York
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
Jersey City, New Jersey
On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Knoxville, Maryland
This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
New York, New York
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
New York, New York
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
Oakland, New Jersey
The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.
Cape May, New Jersey
The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.
Washington, D.C.
The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Matawan, New Jersey
The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
New York, New York
This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.