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The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.

This artwork in a Pennsylvania forest will gradually be overtaken by nature.

Tucked into Pittsburgh’s North Side, the Mattress Factory is a labyrinth of permanent, room-sized installations where artists transform entire spaces into mind-bending, immersive worlds.

This riverside restaurant delivers elegant dining in a historic 1901 train depot. 

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.