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42.3254, -71.1323
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39.2965, -119.6473
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55.3761, 13.1577
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34.6773, 135.4991
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New York, New York
The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
40.7281, -73.9948
Hudson, New York
Olana
The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.
42.2171, -73.8293
Port Jervis, New York
The Hawks Nest
A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.
41.4187, -74.7496
Brooklyn, New York
Astral Apartments
Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.
40.7318, -73.9578
Tomkins Cove, New York
Doodletown
Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.
41.2994, -74.0028
Kingston, New York
Four Corners
The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.
41.9337, -74.0210
Jackson, New Hampshire
Mount Washington
The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.
44.2706, -71.3032
Montauk, New York
Camp Hero
A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.
41.0636, -71.8756
Flanders, New York
Big Duck
A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.
40.9072, -72.6224
Ridge, New York
Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.
40.8690, -72.8809
Pompeii, Italy
Plaster Citizens of Pompeii
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
40.7516, 14.4903
Pompeii, Italy
The Brothels of Pompeii
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
40.7503, 14.4868
Portland, Oregon
Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel
The magic's in the hole!
45.5227, -122.6732
Corbett, Oregon
Multnomah Falls
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
45.5762, -122.1158
Ashford, Washington
Mount Rainier
The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.
46.8537, -121.7590
Yosemite National Park, California
Horsetail Fall's Firefall
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
37.7291, -119.6285
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Clarksdale Crossroads
Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.
34.1984, -90.5531
Seattle, Washington
Gum Wall
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
47.6081, -122.3403
New Paltz, New York
Huguenot Street
The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.
41.7515, -74.0888
Woodstock, New York
Overlook Mountain House Ruins
A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.
42.0849, -74.0997
Saugerties, New York
Opus 40
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
42.0507, -74.0317
Kings Park, New York
Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.
40.8950, -73.2360
Brooklyn, New York
Dead Horse Bay
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
40.5780, -73.8886
Brooklyn, New York
Morbid Anatomy Library & Giftshop
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
40.6559, -74.0081
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