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This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.

Each solstice, students and astronomy enthusiasts gather at a primitive but functioning sun wheel to witness how humanity first used this calendar.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

A 20-foot statue reminds viewers of an extinct species.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.