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"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

This ancient trail has claimed the lives of over 2,000 people.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

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.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

Inside this old mill is a collection of images that will always remain frozen in time.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.