Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.
New York, New York
This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.
New York, New York
Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Bronx, New York
The famous author's cottage hideaway.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.
Washington, D.C.
Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.
Black Mountain, North Carolina
Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.
Afton, Virginia
A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
San Francisco, California
This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
West Liberty, Ohio
These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."
Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Salem, Massachusetts
The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.
Durango, Colorado
This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.
Claremont, North Carolina
A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.