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The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

A drab two-story office space in Delaware is a hidden tax haven for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and over half the Fortune 500 companies.

The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.

In 1787, a group of delegates met at this very spot to drink, be merry, and ratify the Constitution of the United States.

Live chainsaw carvings of tiki statues aim to keep a tradition with ancient roots alive in this small Delaware town.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

These old doors are covered in the signatures of Rehoboth Beach artists dating back to the 1930s.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.