Green Bank, West Virginia
Green Bank Telescope
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
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Green Bank, West Virginia
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
Green Bank, West Virginia
This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.
Cumberland, Maryland
Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."
White Post, Virginia
An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.
Stowe, Vermont
Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.
Cape Charles, Virginia
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.
Brooklyn, New York
This recipe is set in stone.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
A boulder in the Churchyard of Down Cathedral marks the legendary burial place of "The Apostle of Ireland."
Washington, D.C.
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.
New York, New York
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Washington, D.C.
A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.
Washington, D.C.
The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.
Washington, D.C.
The national park was once a plantation estate.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Eyam, England
Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.
Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Jefferson, Maryland
One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.
Thurmont, Maryland
This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.
Thurmont, Maryland
A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.
Thurmont, Maryland
Washed out by the Johnstown Flood in 1889, the surviving portion of the original two-span bridge now resides at Fishing Creek.
Frederick, Maryland
This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.