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Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.