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The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.