Boston, Massachusetts
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Gardner)
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
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Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.
Boston, Massachusetts
An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.
Culpeper, Virginia
A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Boston, Massachusetts
The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Boston, Massachusetts
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
Arlington, Virginia
At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
Washington, D.C.
The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.
Washington, D.C.
Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.