Lane County, Oregon
Dee Wright Observatory
While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.
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Lane County, Oregon
While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.
Compton, Arkansas
The highest waterfall between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains.
Chiloquin, Oregon
All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.
Chicago, Illinois
Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Chicago, Illinois
A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.
Chicago, Illinois
This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.
Chicago, Illinois
This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.
Lincoln, Illinois
Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.
North Bennington, Vermont
The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."
North Adams, Massachusetts
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
North Adams, Massachusetts
The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.
Chester, Massachusetts
The first keystone arch railroad bridges constructed in America.
Mount Washington, Massachusetts
One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.
Danbury, Connecticut
This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.
North Haven, Connecticut
A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.
Essex, Connecticut
This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.
East Haddam, Connecticut
This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.
Portland, Maine
Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.
Kennebunkport, Maine
The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.
Freeport, Maine
When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.