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The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

Find your state fair food favorites all year long.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

A historic town sits upon the site of a long-lost 18th-century trading community.

One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

Inside Crosswicks Creek Park resides an estate chronicling 200 years of history.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

This colonial mansion has been home to a staggering number of American historic figures.