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The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

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

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.