Silver Spring, Maryland
National Park Seminary
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
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Silver Spring, Maryland
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Bethesda, Maryland
Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.
Bethesda, Maryland
This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.
Warrenton, Virginia
This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.
High Point, North Carolina
This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.
High Point, North Carolina
A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.
Huntersville, North Carolina
From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.
Newport, North Carolina
This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.
Rose Hill, North Carolina
The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.
Gaffney, South Carolina
The record holder for the world’s largest peach.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Rebuilt several decades ago, its striking murals prevent it from being reconsecrated as a church.
Taupō, New Zealand
Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.
Rome, Italy
This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.
Rome, Italy
This one-of-a-kind Roman arch is not actually dedicated to the god Janus.
Rome, Italy
In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.
Rome, Italy
This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.
Rome, Italy
This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.
Durham, North Carolina
The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.
Brevard, North Carolina
This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.
Lake Lure, North Carolina
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.
Louisville, Kentucky
The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.
Louisville, Kentucky
The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.