Washington, D.C.
National Academy of Sciences
For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.
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Washington, D.C.
For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.
Washington, D.C.
Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.
Washington, D.C.
Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.
Washington, D.C.
A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.
Washington, D.C.
A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.
Washington, D.C.
The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.
Washington, D.C.
A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.
Washington, D.C.
A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.
Burlington, Vermont
Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.
Bellows Falls, Vermont
These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.
Montpelier, Vermont
Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Shelburne, Vermont
A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.
Woodstock, Vermont
An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.
South Hero, Vermont
A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.
Shelburne, Vermont
A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.
Thetford, Vermont
This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.
Glover, Vermont
This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.
Cattaraugus, New York
This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.
Potsdam, New York
Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.
Troy, New York
A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.
Queens, New York
One of the last taxidermists in New York City.
Hillsdale, New York
Eight whimsical acres of metal art.