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An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Tucked into Pittsburgh’s North Side, the Mattress Factory is a labyrinth of permanent, room-sized installations where artists transform entire spaces into mind-bending, immersive worlds.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

One of the world's smallest city parks is only 12 by 20 feet.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

See the world's biggest spool of thread, along with the largest collection of sewing machines.

The beginnings of one of America's most famous military officers.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

A rock that was too big to move, so the town just paved around it.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.