Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yo, Adrian!
New York, New York
A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.
Newport, Rhode Island
Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.
Providence, Rhode Island
Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.
Boston, Massachusetts
This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.
Orlando, Florida
The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.
Tampa, Florida
This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.
Brooklyn, New York
The highest rapid transit station in the world.
Brooklyn, New York
A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.
Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey
Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.
Brooklyn, New York
The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.
Boston, Massachusetts
Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.
Chicago, Illinois
A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.