St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.
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St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.
Burlington, Vermont
This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.
Montpelier, Vermont
Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.
Graniteville, Vermont
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.
Dorset, Vermont
This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.
Brookfield, Vermont
One car at a time please.
Bellows Falls, Vermont
These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.
Venezuela
This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Townsend, Tennessee
Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.
Antarctica
One of the world's southernmost bars.
Port Jervis, New York
A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.
Nanjemoy, Maryland
The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.
Port Tobacco, Maryland
One of the earliest and best-preserved buildings in Charles County, Maryland.
Lusby, Maryland
Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.
Leonardtown, Maryland
The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.
Scotland, Maryland
This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.
Alexandria, Virginia
This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.
Alexandria, Virginia
An original apothecary from 1792.
Twentynine Palms, California
While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Matavun, Slovenia
This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
Bernards Township, New Jersey
An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.