Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eastern State Penitentiary
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Cambridge, Ohio
Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.
Zanesville, Ohio
A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.
Islamorada, Florida
This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.
Islamorada, Florida
A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Vero Beach, Florida
This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.
Pensacola Beach, Florida
One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.
Miami, Florida
Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.
Riverside, Ohio
Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Ponce Inlet, Florida
The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.
Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Stuart, Florida
In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.