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Cat Alley Murals

Manchester, New Hampshire

Cat Alley

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

Wheaton Station Escalator

Silver Spring, Maryland

Wheaton Station Escalator

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Summerhouse, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted - United States Capitol grounds, Washington, DC

Washington, D.C.

Summerhouse

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

Washington, D.C.

Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

The Rosslyn Metro escalator. (Steven Cohen/Atlas Obscura)

Arlington, Virginia

Rosslyn Metro Escalator

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A marker on Dana Common.

Petersham, Massachusetts

Town of Dana

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

Glacial Potholes

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

Glacial Potholes

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

The shelter's blast door

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Congressional Fallout Shelter at the Greenbrier Resort

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Mammoth Cave

Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

Mammoth Cave

The world's longest known cave system.

Main entrance to the cemetery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mount Moriah Cemetery

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Wagner Free Institute

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wagner Free Institute

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The mother of all burners
Permanently Closed

Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Science Museum

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

William McKinley Assassination Plaque

Buffalo, New York

William McKinley Assassination Plaque

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

The main concourse. (Wikimedia Commons)

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo Central Terminal

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Thermopolia of Pompeii

Pompeii, Italy

Thermopolia of Pompeii

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Tufa tower on south shore of Mono Lake

Lee Vining, California

Mono Lake

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The stunning shape and color of this cliff gives it the appearance of a waterfall

San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Mexico

Hierve El Agua

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

The brine pool's "shore" and surface ripples beneath the Gulf of Mexico.

Mexico

Undersea Brine Lake

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

Sac Aktun Cenote aka Pet Cemetary Cenote

Tulum, Mexico

Pet Cemetery Cenote

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

A view of the Chicxulub impact site from space.

Chicxulub, Mexico

Chicxulub Crater

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The Horca del Inca, a pre-Incan observatory

Copacabana, Bolivia

Horca del Inca

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

Ulugh Beg Observatory.

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Ulugh Beg Observatory

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

The observatory stands in ruin today.

Chichen Itza, Mexico

El Caracol

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Cenote Zací

Valladolid, Mexico

Cenote Zací

If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

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