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America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This mysterious anthropomorphic statuette is on display at the National Museum of Oman.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

An indoor botanical garden for tropical plants looks like a giant cylinder lying on its side.

A science teacher's dream.

Taxidermy reptiles and rodents put on quite the show at this local history museum.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.