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From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

The stone barriers in this historic fishing village were once used for farming and gardening.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

This quirky museum will make you question everything, including the shape of the planet.

This quirky museum celebrates the history of a local cod fishing industry.

This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

Dedicated to the deadliest aviation accidents on Canadian soil.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

The largest hand-carved, outdoor sculpture collection in the state of Maine.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.