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A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

The site of the earliest colonial settlement in the Bahamas started as a place of religious refuge.

A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.

This underwater sculpture park is the basis for a manmade coral reef.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

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

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

Also known as “Robin Hood’s tree,” it became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This Late Gothic building that once housed Erasmus is now known as the filming location of "Suspiria."

A local museum honors Wheeler native Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Hidden in the grounds of the Fort Dodge Museum is a "real" and terrifying petrified giant.