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One side of the Dodge Mining Camp Cabin was exposed to its original 1827 appearance.

Dodgeville, Wisconsin

Dodge Mining Camp Cabin

This 200-year-old cabin was the home of some of the first Wisconsin “badgers” and the site of the broken promises that led to their arrival.

Cave of the Mounds

Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

Cave of the Mounds

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Lawnmowers and landscapers simply work around the eyeballs.

Carmel, Indiana

The Clay Terrace Eyeballs

These eyes bring a smile to all who cruise past their watchful gaze.

The theater’s brick and stone exterior has been meticulously restored.

Erie, Pennsylvania

The Warner Theatre

This Art Deco movie palace turned performing arts center lets audiences experience the glamor of showbiz in its heyday.

Sponsored By VisitErie
Liberation Mural

Indio, California

Liberation Mural

The sequential animation shows a galloping horse stretching, morphing into a winged Pegasus, and finally transforming into a bird soaring.

Display cases.

Laurel, Maryland

On the Brink

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

William Paca House

Annapolis, Maryland

William Paca House And Garden

This Annapolis home was built by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

The exhibit starts with a short film that ties together several stories of Annapolis history explored in the city's network of museums.

Annapolis, Maryland

Museum of Historic Annapolis

A quick journey through the history of Annapolis.

This unusual relief depicts a future president serving a cup of coffee to an injured soldier.

Wilmington, Delaware

McKinley Monument

This relief sculpture depicts America’s most famous coffee break.

The Mansion

Pasadena, California

Fenyes Mansion

A repository of Pasadena history.

Vroman's Storefront

Pasadena, California

Vroman's Bookstore

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

1952 Lighthouse Vintage Camper - 1 of 8 to Exist

Phelps, Wisconsin

The Living History Museum of Camping

America’s first living history museum of camping — a decade-by-decade museum of vintage campers, luxury tents, and Northwoods vacation history that guests can actually sleep in.

Tiffany Dome

Big Bear Lake, California

The Tiffany Dome

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

The lounge viewed from the street.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bob & Barbara's

This iconic lounge is home to the longest running drag show in Philadelphia, iconic jazz trios, and is the birthplace to the infamous "Citywide."

Breakfast Room hidden door.

Asheville, North Carolina

Biltmore Estate's Secret Passages

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The Electrical Box Theatre

Los Angeles, California

The Electrical Box Theatre

This gray utility box is not full of wires; it is a tiny, operational theater hiding on a Downtown Los Angeles sidewalk.

Front entry

Madison, Wisconsin

Gates of Heaven Synagogue

This synagogue in Madison, Wisconsin, is a historic architectural gem and one of the oldest surviving synagogue buildings in the United States.

The Afro-Antillean Museum

Panama City, Panama

The Afro-Antillean Museum

The Afro-Caribbean workers who constructed the Panama Canal built this church-turned-museum in their spare time.

The bog's Visitor Center, converted from a dairy barn

Grant Township, Illinois

Volo Bog State Natural Area

Volo Bog is the only open-water quaking bog in Illinois, and also the southernmost open-water quaking bog in North America to exhibit all stages of bog succession.

Tim Willis' Junkyard Playground

Cleveland, Ohio

Tim Willis' Junkyard Playground

Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

George Masaveg in front of his creation

Cleveland, Ohio

George Masaveg Art Home

One man's collection of found art, sculpture, and ephemera adorns his two side-by-side homes.

Main staircase

Jaco, Costa Rica

El Miro Ruins

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

The historic Charles Carroll House.

Annapolis, Maryland

Charles Carroll House

Essential to the history of early American religious freedom and home to the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

The Annual Reminder Marker

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Annual Reminder Marker

Where some of America's earliest LGBTQ rights protests marched each Fourth of July

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