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One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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