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These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

This small beachside park commemorates the possibilities of discovery.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.