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Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

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.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.