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The lasting remains of the region's once booming cement industry.

This unusual rock formation in Berks County is nearly a mile long and may date from the Ice Age.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

At a mile long, the Fort Madison Bridge is the largest double-decker swing-span bridge in the world.

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

America’s first living history museum of camping — a decade-by-decade museum of vintage campers, luxury tents, and Northwoods vacation history that guests can actually sleep in.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

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

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

Experience life in Colonial times at an Amish pioneer’s historic homestead in Berks County.

A "house to which to flee" for settlers in colonial Pennsylvania.

A sprawling bloom-filled refuge with walking paths, benches, and a fountain at its center

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.