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This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

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

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

This 150-year-old mill on Eel River still produces flour and offers tours of its historic grounds.

An old railroad crossing that’s been converted into a pedestrian bridge.

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

This former mill tunnel was blasted under the ridge to divert a portion of the Muscatatuck River.

Marine fossils from the Devonian period are exposed at this park.

A herd of roughly 250 American bison roam these plains.

Train cars and railroad artifacts abound at this restaurant devoted to railway history.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

The Fun Farm weaves fairy tales, myths, and magic into a magnificent collection for visitors to explore.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

Three courses accompanied by Christian rock.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.