Coral Gables, Florida
Venetian Pool
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
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Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Waldo, Florida
North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.
North Fort Myers, Florida
The largest retailer of seashells in the world.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Jerome, Arizona
On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Lusby, Maryland
Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.
Thurmont, Maryland
This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.
Baltimore, Maryland
It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.
Arlington, Virginia
Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."
Nashville, Tennessee
At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.
Berkeley, California
A celebration of once forgotten materials.
Berkeley, California
A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.
Albany, California
A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Peshtigo, Wisconsin
A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.
Los Angeles, California
Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.