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These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

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

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Both funky and traditional, it's the oldest of its kind in Indiana.