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This deserted island off the coast of Philadelphia is only visitable a few days every year; once industrialized, it is now an ecological marvel.

Before this fine stone viaduct was built, trains ran across a rather wobbly wooden trestle, and the original abutments are still there.

As the oldest structure in Harris County, this 200-year-old frontier cabin stands in the literal shadow of downtown Houston’s massive skyscrapers.

The oldest independent bottling plant in America was built directly over an ancient spring — and famously rejected Coca-Cola.

The Pickle Guys stand as a salt-stained holdout of the Lower East Side’s historic pushcart culture.

One of only two exposed meteor impact craters in the United States

This popular shopping mall and eatery once provided scant comfort to sick colonials and seafarers

This English country house was once a P.O.W. "resort" and base for spymasters during the Second World War

An example of early 20th century gender segregation

The largest rainforest in southern Africa was only discovered by conservationists thanks to Google Earth

Amazing tiled map mural showing the lines of the famous Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, incorporated into the war memorial after WW1

A mysterious, almost perfectly circular floating island gyrating inside a likewise circular lake

Sitting in a quiet field just west of Cardiff is a well-preserved megalithic burial chamber, topped with a 40-ton capstone

Near where the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition launched, there is a monument to 'Scott of the Antarctic'

At Bank station, the tunneling shield that built the original Waterloo & City line tunnel is hiding in plain sight

This atmospheric cavern on the hillside above picturesque Rydal Water is actually an old slate quarry

Why trying to get lost in the old quarters of Essaouira may be harder than you think

The first federal construction project authorized under the Constitution

A 1920s navigation arrow for airmail is preserved right off Interstate 80 near the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake

One of the most important pieces in the Madrid History Museum and one of the oldest historical models of a city in Europe

Some of the best preserved Roman mosaics in Spain can be found together in this archaeological park near Carranque, Toledo

These controversial statues are adorned with patterns of bricks and lace, linking them to Bedford's historical ties to both industries

The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016

The McCandless Collection preserves one of the region's most distinctive collections of rare Mopar vehicles, historic race cars, and vintage automobilia celebrating American automotive heritage.