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A beautiful Victorian-era mausoleum, designed for a single occupant.

This interactive museum is dedicated to the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and founder of one of the nation’s earliest boomtowns.

A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

One of the earliest—and most commonly forgotten—acts of rebellion against English rule.

The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.