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On Waikīkī Beach, a monument to four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirits who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i.

This saltwater swimming pool, which is the last of its kind in the United States, is slowly crumbling within sight of multiple high-end beachside hotels.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

Hiding in plane sight.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Vermont is the final resting place of soldiers, politicians, and a famous author.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

This trippy wonderland is the result of one man's obsessive, decades long passion project.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.