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This heritage museum highlights the importance of the dairy cow as a vital part of rural Maryland's past, present, and future.

This three-story Victorian mansion is now home to the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center headquarters.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

These small house replicas have stood proudly since the 1950s, even as the property has changed hands.

Intricate, eye-catching, award-winning rubber sculptures liven up this Pennsylvania town.

The all-but-forgotten cemetery is Eastern Loudon County's largest African-American burial ground.

This giant 200-year-old ginkgo is one of the largest in the United States.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

Take a trip to the past aboard a 1920s railcar or open flatcar for a scenic ride through Maryland farm country.

A well-preserved quarry and six of eight continuous burning pot kilns used to make burnt lime and crushed stone are highlights of the self-guided walking tour in Fountain Rock Park.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.