Jersey City, New Jersey
The Black Tom Explosion Memorial
A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.
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Jersey City, New Jersey
A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.
Jersey City, New Jersey
A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Flemington, New Jersey
One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.
Tonalea, Arizona
The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.
Tucson, Arizona
Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.
Tucson, Arizona
Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.
Phoenix, Arizona
A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.
Phoenix, Arizona
A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Holbrook, Arizona
A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Page, Arizona
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Bakersfield, California
An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.
New York, New York
For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.
Princeton, New Jersey
Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.
Ocean Grove, New Jersey
A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.
Morristown, New Jersey
A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Elmira, New York
The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.