Auburn, New York
Fort Hill Cemetery
The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.
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Auburn, New York
The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.
Rochester, New York
An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.
Elmira, New York
The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.
Rochester, New York
A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.
Rochester, New York
Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.
Rochester, New York
The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.
Syracuse, New York
A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.
Chicopee, Massachusetts
The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.
Springfield, Massachusetts
A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.
Hartford, Connecticut
The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
This monument commemorates an aeronaut who allegedly flew a plane before the Wright brothers.
New Haven, Connecticut
Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.
New Haven, Connecticut
This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Cleveland, Ohio
An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.
Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This plaque marks a place where one of Hollywood’s most famous dancers got his start.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Detroit, Michigan
This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.