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Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

The world’s first museum dedicated solely to electric vehicles.

One man spent decades making these working scale models of antique cars.

This small hill features the most notable collection of petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park.

The "Father of Arizona" tried to build a Zoroastrian fire temple on the hill where he's now buried.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

During World War II this was the site of an "honor camp" used as a prison for draft dodgers, Native American conscientious objectors, and Japanese-Americans—including a man who brought his case against the camp to the Supreme Court.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

The only Native American intaglio left in Wisconsin.

The property contains 37 preserved animal effigy mounds constructed by Native Americans between 800-1100.