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This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.