Council Bluffs, Iowa
Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
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Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
New York, New York
This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.
New York, New York
Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.
New York, New York
The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.
New York, New York
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
New York, New York
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
New York, New York
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
New York, New York
A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.
New York, New York
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Brooklyn, New York
Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Orlando, Florida
Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
Riverview, Florida
The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.
San Francisco, California
The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”
San Francisco, California
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
San Francisco, California
The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
San Francisco, California
Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.