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A sobering museum dedicated to landmines and the personnel working to remove them from Afghanistan.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.