Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Irish Memorial at Penn's Landing
An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.
Boston, Massachusetts
Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.
Boston, Massachusetts
This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.
Corolla, North Carolina
Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
A gorgeous gem on the ocean.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.
Hilo, Hawaii
Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.
Naalehu, Hawaii
The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.
Hawaii
This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Kilauea, Hawaii
A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.
Austin, Minnesota
Ever wanted to can Spam?
Chamberlain, South Dakota
A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Beatty, Nevada
The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.