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The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

An Adirondacks museum housed in the former studio of Marcella Sembrich, the 19th century opera star most famous for her role of Mimi in "La Boheme."

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The world's longest known cave system.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.