Sparta, Tennessee
Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
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Sparta, Tennessee
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Eastport, Maine
Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.
Norway, Maine
This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.
Southwest Harbor, Maine
A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.
Perry, Maine
A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.
Jonesport, Maine
An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.
South Bristol, Maine
For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.
Portland, Maine
The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.
Union, Maine
They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.
Newry, Maine
A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.
Woodstock, Maine
A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.
Verona Island, Maine
The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.
Yarmouth, Maine
The world's largest rotating world.
Hancock, Maine
The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.
Manchester, New Hampshire
One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
New York, New York
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Tambon Sa Kamphaeng Yai, Thailand
Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.
Shartlesville, Pennsylvania
An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
A local prank turned town icon.