Scranton, Pennsylvania
Lackawanna Coal Mine
Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.
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Scranton, Pennsylvania
Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.
Sherborn, Massachusetts
Dedicated to a local cow who escaped a slaughterhouse and became an international symbol of peace.
Florida, Massachusetts
A war memorial that appears to ascend from its forested setting.
Montague, Massachusetts
Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Boston, Massachusetts
The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.
Gardner, Massachusetts
In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.
Boston, Massachusetts
In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.
New York, New York
Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
Dorset, Vermont
This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.
Saratoga Springs, New York
The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.
Catskill, New York
The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.
Greenfield Center, New York
Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.
Boston, Massachusetts
Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.