Boston, Massachusetts
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
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Boston, Massachusetts
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
Brooklyn, New York
Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.
Pawling, New York
The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.
Washington, D.C.
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.
Edison, New Jersey
A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.
Chanhassen, Minnesota
Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.
Washington, D.C.
Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Washington, D.C.
This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.
Hartford, Connecticut
A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.
Salem, Massachusetts
The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.
Hamburg, New Jersey
Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Richmond, Virginia
Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.
Washington, D.C.
A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.
Fenwick Island, Delaware
A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Washington, D.C.
These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.
Catskill, New York
The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.
Farmington, Connecticut
The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.
Farmington, Connecticut
An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.
Youngsville, North Carolina
A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.
Concord, New Hampshire
The dress young Pierce wore prior to his breeching ceremony in the early 1800s is now on display for all to see.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.