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A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

This decommissioned surface-to-surface missile resides outside the American Legion Post in Pennslyvania.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

For more than 150 years, this cemetery has served as the final resting place for many members of Wilmington's Black community.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The remains of a 19th century cargo ship now sits in the middle of a quaint neighborhood after a century spent on the ocean floor.

A unique museum that uses visual art and storytelling to reveal the hidden history of the Gullah Geechee and their African ancestors.

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.