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The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.