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Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.