East Haddam, Connecticut
Gillette Castle State Park
Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.
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East Haddam, Connecticut
Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.
Alexandria, Virginia
An original apothecary from 1792.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.
Laconia, New Hampshire
The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.
New York, New York
Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.
Mecca, California
World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.
Atlanta, Georgia
Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.
New York, New York
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Washington, D.C.
People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.
Athens, Ohio
An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.
Millinocket, Maine
The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.
Jackson, New Hampshire
This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
Brooklyn, New York
Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.
New York, New York
This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.
Boston, Massachusetts
Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Baltimore, Maryland
This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
Memphis, Tennessee
This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.
Randsburg, California
This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.
Abita Springs, Louisiana
A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.