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eddiey

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Fort Armistead

Baltimore, Maryland

Fort Armistead

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

These ships were used as houseboats during the Great Depression.

Baltimore, Maryland

Curtis Creek Ship Graveyard

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Decoys

Havre de Grace, Maryland

Havre de Grace Decoy Museum

The Decoy Capital of the World.

A bald eagle flies in front of the dam.

Darlington, Maryland

Conowingo Dam

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

Ladew Topiary Gardens

Monkton, Maryland

Ladew Topiary Gardens

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

The front of the ruins.

San Jose, California

Ruins of the Bayside Cannery

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

The Peralta Adobe

San Jose, California

Peralta Adobe

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

Leo and Leona guard the gates

Los Gatos, California

The Cats

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

A cautious frog surveys the scene.

Moss Landing, California

Elkhorn Slough

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

Downtown Tinseltown

Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Sign

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The building lit up at night.

Los Angeles, California

LAX Theme Building

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The Blue Whale of Noah's Ark

West Mifflin, Pennsylvania

The Blue Whale of Noah's Ark

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

The St. Clair monument.

Greensburg, Pennsylvania

St. Clair Park

Originally a cemetery, this city park remains speckled with a handful of scattered gravestones.

Big Mac Sculpture

Irwin, Pennsylvania

The Big Mac Museum

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

Sampson-Clark Toll House

Export, Pennsylvania

Sampson-Clark Toll House

This restored log building was one of the first toll booths for travelers along the Northern Turnpike.

Some tours go deeper into the caves and even take a tour that involves crawling through tight passageways.

Farmington, Pennsylvania

Laurel Caverns

Pennsylvania's largest cave in Laurel Highlands becomes its first underground state park.

Church exterior

Eglon, West Virginia

Our Lady of the Pines

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

Hoye-Crest

Eglon, West Virginia

Hoye-Crest

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

God's Ark of Safety

Frostburg, Maryland

God's Ark of Safety

A steel skeleton is all that exists of what is supposed to be a replica of Noah's Ark

LaVale Toll Gate House

Cumberland, Maryland

LaVale Toll Gate House

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

Paw Paw Tunnel

Oldtown, Maryland

Paw Paw Tunnel

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The monument overlooks the potomac river, where the first steamboat sailed

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Birthplace of the Steamboat

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Watts Towers

Los Angeles, California

Watts Towers

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

La Brea Tar Pits

Los Angeles, California

La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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