St. Petersburg, Florida
Brooklyn Art Library
Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles
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St. Petersburg, Florida
Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
New York, New York
For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."
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.
New York, New York
Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.
Park Ridge, Illinois
A science teacher's dream.
Gainesville, Florida
This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.
Sparta, Tennessee
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
Brooklyn, New York
Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Brooklyn, New York
Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
San Diego, California
An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Hildebran, North Carolina
An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.
Logan, Ohio
Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.
Madrid, Iowa
A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.
North Miami Beach, Florida
St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
Queens, New York
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
Washington, D.C.
A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.