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This family-run roadside motel is an ode to the mid-century motor era.

This is the last surviving Bollman truss bridge in the world.

Blink and you’ll miss it—the tiniest street in America packs a lot of charm into just a few steps.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This installation turns abstract economics into a stark, public spectacle.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

A hidden pet cemetery honors the generations of canine companions from one of Pittsburgh's most famous estates.

A small memorial dedicated to a man purportedly killed when a meteor the size of an SUV crashed into him.

A collection of railroad cars filled with skeletons, model planets and curiosities collected over decades.

This single-screen Art Deco theater in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1941.

This sycamore is Connecticut's largest tree, New England's largest sycamore, and among the largest of its kind nationwide.

This once-forgotten African American cultural hub was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.

Learn about the history and hopeful future of Maine’s nesting birds at this interactive Audubon facility.

George Washington commissioned this centuries-old lighthouse off the coast of Maine.

This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.

In October 1856, Harriet Tubman escaped arrest at this site while attempting to reunite an enslaved woman named Tilly with her fiancé.

This wildflower meadow was once the site of America's oldest operating paper mill and a symbol of Newark's manufacturing past.

A man's curious and seriously small handmade objects from around the world.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Delaware's first railroad lasted only five years and spanned only 16 miles, but its ticket office has survived for two centuries.

Dedicated to extinct passenger pigeons.