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Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

Whimsical cartoon cars suspended on posts soar over an automotive shop.

For one month, the fields and skies of Gibbon, Nebraska, come alive with one of the largest gatherings of sandhill cranes in North America.

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.

A eclectic collection of military memorabilia.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.

The rodent-shaped sidewalk imprint that earned worldwide media attention.

One of the few surviving gates into Old Goa, the former capital of Portuguese India.

The highest peak in Puerto Rico is home to a rare fern that can only be found on six trees at its summit.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.