Los Angeles, California
La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
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Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Los Angeles, California
Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."
Los Angeles, California
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
New York, New York
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
Hull, Massachusetts
The last remaining attraction from Paragon Park.
Boston, Massachusetts
The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.
Boston, Massachusetts
A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Littleton, New Hampshire
A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.
Providence, Rhode Island
Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.
Narragansett, Rhode Island
The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.
Providence, Rhode Island
An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.
Newport, Rhode Island
Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.
York, Maine
The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.
Boston, Massachusetts
A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.
Lexington, Massachusetts
This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.