Groton, Connecticut
Submarine Force Museum
The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.
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Groton, Connecticut
The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.
Groton, Connecticut
This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.
Orient, New York
Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.
Bartlett, New Hampshire
This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.
Gilmanton, New Hampshire
Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.
Boston, Massachusetts
The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
A plaque on a rock dedicated to a famous, forgotten author, and put in an impossible place.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Providence, Rhode Island
To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.
Austin, Texas
A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.
Southbridge, Massachusetts
A quirky museum paying tribute to the history of the optical industry.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
New Haven, Connecticut
This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.
Wilmington, Delaware
This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.
Wilmington, Delaware
A drab two-story office space in Delaware is a hidden tax haven for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and over half the Fortune 500 companies.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
The Decoy Capital of the World.
Baltimore, Maryland
This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."
Annapolis, Maryland
Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Washington, D.C.
This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.
Washington, D.C.
People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.