New York, New York
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This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
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New York, New York
This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Washington, D.C.
Home to two notable early-20th-century Black educators, Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill.
Morgantown, West Virginia
The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Built in 1945, this historic train station has a new lease on life with its baggage area serving as an event space.
Poolesville, Maryland
Using a massive antenna made up of five miles of wire, two scientists tuned into organic radio waves from the planet Jupiter.
Colebrook, New Hampshire
A mere dot on the map in the great north woods is the first place in America to vote in Presidential elections.
Portsmouth, Virginia
A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.
Hazlehurst, Mississippi
A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.
Silver Spring, Maryland
This general store has stood in the same spot for well over a century.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.
Fort Worth, Texas
The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.
Waycross, Georgia
The Okefenokee Swamp houses this "incredibobble" tribute to the creator of America’s favorite cartoon possum.
Holiday, Florida
This massive vault of comedic history is no joke.
White Springs, Florida
This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”
Montpelier, Vermont
A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.
Alexandria, Virginia
The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.
Lorton, Virginia
The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.
West Palm Beach, Florida
This mass grave for victims of a massive hurricane remained hidden until 1991.
Baltimore, Maryland
This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."
Key West, Florida
A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.