Portland, Maine
The Portland Observatory
The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.
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Portland, Maine
The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.
Los Angeles, California
The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.
New York, New York
This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.
New York, New York
A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.
New York, New York
This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.
New York, New York
Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.
New York, New York
During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.
New York, New York
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Sevierville, Tennessee
While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.
Predjama, Slovenia
Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.
Bronx, New York
A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.
Hershey, Pennsylvania
This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.
Meriden, Connecticut
A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.
Moorestown, New Jersey
An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.
Jersey City, New Jersey
This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Mount Washington, Massachusetts
One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.
Hobart, New York
This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.
Kinderhook, New York
At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.
Cohoes, New York
A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.