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A former groundskeeper’s cottage, now famous for being the main location of a hit British comedy game show.

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

The only museum in the world dedicated to the global, historic, and modern art of beadwork.

A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.

The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.

This curious and colorful space invites visitors to delve into the hidden and often mind-boggling world of caterpillars.

First Nations’ foodways are front and center at this food truck-turned-brick-and-mortar.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

This once-forgotten African American cultural hub was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.

An eight-foot-long pine cone made out of 140 recycled steel shovels is an homage to Maine's state flower.

The largest Walmart Supercenter in the United States, referred to affectionately as “Mallmart,” has served the residents of Albany, New York, since 1994.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

Starting in 1961, Brookhaven National Labs regularly irradiated a section of forest with a canister of Cesium-137 to study the effects of hard gamma radiation on an ecosystem.

Tracing a path of more than four miles around a frozen lake, this is the longest skate trail in the United States.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century.

Some believe Ponce de León's mystical spring lurks right under a public drinking fountain.

The birthplace of this Gilded Age celebrity, opera singer, suffragette, and shipwreck survivor has been turned into a museum celebrating her fascinating life.

This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

One of the first amphibian migration tunnels in the United States encourages a tradition that has inspired Amherst residents for decades.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.