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Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

At an estimated 3,800 years old, this olive tree is one of the oldest on earth.

A set of tall pillars and alcove-like rooms that are significant to the Miami people of Indiana.

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

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

Often referred to as the largest spring in America.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

The longest step street in the city.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.