Nashville, Tennessee
The Nations Silo
An enormous mural of a local Nashville resident adorns this abandoned silo.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Swannanoa, North Carolina
The Old Farmers' Ball
Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Ruby Falls
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Pelham, Tennessee
The Caverns
An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.
Manchester, Tennessee
Old Stone Fort
This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
The World’s Largest Cedar Bucket
Built in the 19th century, this bucket has been to two World’s Fairs.
Northampton, Massachusetts
Stout Silver Medal Daylily Garden
This college campus garden is home to generations of award winning flowers.
Northampton, Massachusetts
Restroom Works of Art
Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.
Ithaca, New York
Six Mile Creek
In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.
Boston, Massachusetts
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Gardner)
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
New York, New York
'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
New York, New York
The 'Goodnight Moon' House (Cobble Court)
Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.
New York, New York
The Narrowest Building in New York
This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.
New York, New York
The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
New York, New York
Gay Street
An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.
New York, New York
Gay Liberation
The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.
New York, New York
The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
New York, New York
The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
New York, New York
Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
New York, New York
Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
Seattle, Washington
Hammering Man
This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.
Seattle, Washington
Dusty Strings
This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.
Seattle, Washington
Lenin Statue of Fremont
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
Amazon Spheres
The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.
