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Palo Verde Energy Educational Center

Buckeye, Arizona

Palo Verde Energy Educational Center

Get up close to a life-sized model of a spent-fuel dry cask and learn how Arizona’s largest power plant operates in a desert.

Grumpy Cat's headstone.

Sun City, Arizona

Grumpy Cat’s Grave

The final resting place for an internet icon.

A sample platter of meats, with plenty of mustard.

Glendale, Arizona

A Touch of European Cafe

This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

Empire Garden Restaurant

Boston, Massachusetts

Empire Garden Restaurant

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Caffe Vittoria

Boston, Massachusetts

Caffe Vittoria

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Wild Blueberry Land

Columbia Falls, Maine

Wild Blueberry Land

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

Earth Eagle Brewings

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Earth Eagle Brewings

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

MacAlpine's Soda Fountain

Phoenix, Arizona

MacAlpine's Soda Fountain

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The building's exterior

Concord, New Hampshire

Haunted Margaritas

This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.

The monks with their delicious wares.

Eagle Harbor, Michigan

The Jampot

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Order "L'Originale," or poutine dressed in the style of the 1964 original.

Drummondville, Québec

Le Roy Jucep

This retro diner claims to be the birthplace of poutine.

The catfish arrives perfectly seasoned.

Asheville, North Carolina

Good Hot Fish

Chef Ashleigh Shanti serves up a classic Appalachian fish fry.

Poolsmoor Prison Cantina

Cape Town, South Africa

Poolsmoor Prison Cantina

Breakfast and lunch in a canteen where the servers and kitchen staff are prison inmates.

Severed Arm of Saint Edmund

Stonington, Connecticut

Severed Arm of Saint Edmund

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

The infamous "Building 257" on Plum Island.

Orient, New York

Plum Island Animal Disease Center

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

Pulpit Rock Tower

Rye, New Hampshire

Pulpit Rock Tower

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

Stump with tree rings. And snails. April 2019.

Rye, New Hampshire

Sunken Forests of Rye

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

Hill family plot

Kingston, New Hampshire

Betty and Barney Hill Graves

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The Finger

Westford, Vermont

The Finger

Three wooden middle fingers raised in protest.

Dewey Square Pylon & Bent 38

Boston, Massachusetts

Dewey Square Pylon & Bent 38

These structures serve as a memorial to one of Boston’s most ambitious and controversial urban redevelopment projects.

LIGO Hanford Observatory

Richland, Washington

LIGO Hanford Observatory

One of two observatories in the U.S. that routinely detect gravitational waves.

The former testing laboratory

Las Vegas, Nevada

Mormon Fort

The oldest standing building in Las Vegas was established by Mormon settlers.

Atlas Missile Silo Home

Saranac, New York

Atlas Missile Silo Home

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

Marconi Wireless Station Site

Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Marconi Wireless Station Site

The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

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