New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
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New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Trenton, New Jersey
This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.
Trenton, New Jersey
One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Hope, New Jersey
Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.
Shartlesville, Pennsylvania
An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
Linesville, Pennsylvania
"Where the ducks walk on fish."
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
Madrid, Spain
Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
St. Augustine, Florida
In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.