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Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

A place for ship-lovers to watch the passage of freighters traversing the Great Lakes while learning about their history.

This historic suspension bridge is one of three remaining swinging bridges in Michigan, and one of the few swinging bridges left in North America.

Train fans from all over flock to this railroad viewing park where three lines converge.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

A former nuclear facility during the Cold War turned nature preserve.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

A 1,000-foot-long railroad tunnel under Shavers Fork connected the towns during West Virginia's logging boom until its closure in 1985.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

How did the front of a supersonic jet make its way to a display case in a Kansas City yard?

The oldest brick house in the state of Ohio.

Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.