Boston, Massachusetts
Jamaica Pond Bench
From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.
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Boston, Massachusetts
From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.
New York, New York
Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Cleveland, Ohio
The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.
Stanley, Idaho
See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Kansas City, Missouri
The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.
Los Angeles, California
Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.
Queens, New York
Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
Versailles, Ohio
The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.
Seattle, Washington
A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.
Boston, Massachusetts
Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.
Kennebunk, Maine
The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.
Denver, Colorado
Explore some of the most unique vehicles in history along with a cast of unsettling mannequins.
San Francisco, California
Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.
Roosevelt, Arizona
This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.
Cortez, Florida
An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Kissimmee, Florida
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.
Boston, Massachusetts
This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.