Portland, Maine
Fort Gorges
Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.
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Portland, Maine
Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.
Leonardtown, Maryland
The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.
Lexington Park, Maryland
A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.
Alexandria, Virginia
The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.
Alexandria, Virginia
Dedicated to a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who was also a bird watcher and artist.
State College, Pennsylvania
No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Stanford, California
A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.
Woodside, California
This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.
Hainesport, New Jersey
A giant scrap metal troll rests his hands on top of a dilapidated building covered in graffiti.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Florence, Italy
Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
Florence, Italy
Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.
Halifax, England
This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
La Push, Washington
Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.
Forks, Washington
A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.
Forks, Washington
One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.
Dummerston, Vermont
The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.
Stowe, Vermont
Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.
Hyde Park, New York
"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Church Creek, Maryland
The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.
Bethesda, Maryland
FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.