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Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.