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Mill Hill Deck of Cards

Baltimore, Maryland

Mill Hill Deck of Cards

Baltimore’s longest row of identical attached houses

The Baltimore Museum of Industry.

Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore Museum of Industry

A charming tour of the umbrella, tin-can, and drinking-straw capital of the world.

View of the Baker Mansion from the Front Lawn.

Altoona, Pennsylvania

Baker Mansion

Once home to a wealthy ironmaster, this 19th-century mansion now holds unique relics from Blair County's past, and perhaps the spirits of its former occupants.

Historic 1776 Dobbin House is the oldest structure in Gettysburg.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Historic Dobbin House

This Pennsylvania structure, the oldest building in Gettysburg, was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

See the restored railway cars up close.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg Railway

Travel back in time aboard a restored 1950s-era railcar.

The Willingboro Futuro House

Willingboro, New Jersey

The Willingboro Futuro House

One of the rare, saucer-shaped prefabricated homes designed by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the 1960s.

Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Scotland Neck, North Carolina

Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Amazing collection of over 2,000 live birds from around the world, many of which are rare or endangered.

Temple at dusk

Robbinsville, New Jersey

Swaminarayan Akshardham USA

This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

museum interior

Catonsville, Maryland

Benjamin Banneker Museum

This museum honors an African-American renaissance man of the early 18th century.

Harvey (#8) near the creek running beneath Main St

Blacksburg, Virginia

16 Frogs

Bronze frogs link the town’s hidden waterways with the people who shaped it.

Washington Crossing Historic Park

Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania

Washington Crossing Historic Park

The site of the daring river crossing that changed the course of the American Revolution.

Hartwood Acres Pet Cemetery

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Hartwood Acres Pet Cemetery

A hidden pet cemetery honors the generations of canine companions from one of Pittsburgh's most famous estates.

Haunted Candle Shoppe of the Poconos

Swiftwater, Pennsylvania

Haunted Candle Shoppe of the Poconos

A candle shop hiding a haunted basement once used as a monkey research lab.

Closer view of the grave houses.

Jackson, North Carolina

Jackson Grave Houses

A quiet cemetery in northeastern North Carolina holds tiny structures believed to protect spirits.

Closeup of the “vandalism”

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Civil War Graffiti

Soldiers’ scrawls turned into history’s signatures.

View from the sidewalk

San Diego, California

‘City of Bonita Drive’

An eye-catching model town in a San Diego backyard.

The Gates of Hell

Turkmenistan

The Gates of Hell

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Abington Friends Meeting House.

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

Abington Friends Meeting House

Benjamin Lay, a fiery abolitionist, is buried outside the Quaker meeting house that disowned him for his beliefs.

Cresson Sanatorium and Prison

Lilly, Pennsylvania

Cresson Sanatorium and Prison

This sanitorium-turned-asylum-turned-prison is now abandoned and a hotspot for enjoyers of the paranormal.

The Pest House Medical Museum

Lynchburg, Virginia

The Pest House Medical Museum

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

Frost Entomological Museum

State College, Pennsylvania

Frost Entomological Museum

Penn State's giant bug collection.

Centralia

Aristes, Pennsylvania

Centralia

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

TNT igloo hidden by overgrowth.

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

TNT Area

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

Nashville Parthenon

Nashville, Tennessee

Concrete Parthenon

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

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