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A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

It's an incredibly beautiful city public space, with spacious rooms to study and admire the artwork.

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

"Di amigo y entra" at this Argentinian Middle Earth-inspired pub.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

This museum honors the farming past of the “Salad Bowl of the World.”

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.