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A view of City Hall from below. (Photo:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia City Hall

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

SafeHouse

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

SafeHouse

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Wall Street Bombing Scars

New York, New York

Wall Street Bombing Scars

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Spoonbridge and Cherry

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Spoonbridge and Cherry

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Center for Puppetry Arts

Atlanta, Georgia

Center for Puppetry Arts

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The Very Large Array

Magdalena, New Mexico

The Very Large Array

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Koontz Coffee Pot

Bedford, Pennsylvania

Koontz Coffee Pot

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

Tourists flock to the buoy (Flickr/Turtle43)

Key West, Florida

Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Flamingos on Flamingo Island

Las Vegas, Nevada

Flamingo Habitat

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The foundations of the buildings that were at the center of the Salem witch trials in 1692.

Danvers, Massachusetts

Salem Village Parsonage

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The aligned segments create a human head.

Charlotte, North Carolina

David Černý's Metalmorphosis

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

The old hanging tree, once outside, now built into the bar.

Key West, Florida

Captain Tony's Saloon

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Colonial Park Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

Colonial Park Cemetery

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Wanamaker Building

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wanamaker Building

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Crown Fountain

Chicago, Illinois

Crown Fountain

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Hollywood Cemetery

Richmond, Virginia

Hollywood Cemetery

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The wooden escalators at Macy's are almost 100 years old.

New York, New York

Macy's Wooden Escalators

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Goblin Valley

Green River, Utah

Goblin Valley State Park

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Palace of Fine Arts

San Francisco, California

Palace of Fine Arts

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Brattle Book Shop.

Boston, Massachusetts

Brattle Book Shop

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Early morning snow flurries begin to transform one of Colorado Springs’ most spectacular locations.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Garden of the Gods

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Nine Mile Canyon - the BLM has advised it as "an area of critical environmental concern"

Carbon County, Utah

Nine Mile Canyon

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Polé (Xcaret Archaeological Site)

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Polé (Xcaret Archaeological Site)

One of Mexico's least-visited archaeological sites is tucked away inside a theme park.

Xaman-Há Ruins

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Xaman-Há Ruins

Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.

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