Boston, Massachusetts
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The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.
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Boston, Massachusetts
The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.
Boston, Massachusetts
A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
San Jose, California
San Francisco Bay's ghost town.
San Jose, California
A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.
San Jose, California
Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
San Francisco, California
A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.
Bronx, New York
This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.
Nördlingen, Germany
A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.
Washington, D.C.
Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.
Denver, Colorado
Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.
San Antonio, Texas
This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
Brooklyn, New York
Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.