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This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.