Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SS United States
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
Holmdel, New Jersey
This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.
Holmdel, New Jersey
The real-life ‘Severance’ office building.
Shamong, New Jersey
This 25-foot-tall gorilla made his way from the Wildwood boardwalk to a Pine Barrens gas station and deli.
Princeton, New Jersey
The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.
Hainesport, New Jersey
A giant scrap metal troll rests his hands on top of a dilapidated building covered in graffiti.
Thompson Springs, Utah
Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Queens, New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Providence, Rhode Island
Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.
Providence, Rhode Island
An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.
Hyde Park, New York
"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."
Hudson, New York
The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Kingston, New York
The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.
Winchester, Virginia
The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.