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One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.