Provincetown, Massachusetts
The Pest House Cemetery
A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.
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Provincetown, Massachusetts
A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.
Montclair, New Jersey
Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.
Summit, New Jersey
An enormous overgrown greenhouse teeming with graffiti and wildlife.
South Hero, Vermont
A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.
Waterford, Connecticut
Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.
New York, New York
One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.
Baraboo, Wisconsin
This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.
Trenton, New Jersey
This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Boston, Massachusetts
This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.
Quincy, Massachusetts
The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.
South Hero, Vermont
Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.
New York, New York
A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.
Stony Point, New York
Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.
Ewing Township, New Jersey
A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.
New London, Connecticut
New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.
Hebron, Connecticut
The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.
Baltimore, Maryland
America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.
New York, New York
This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.
New York, New York
In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.