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This indiscriminate collection of audio antiques is trying to preserve the history of the audio industry one vintage appliance at a time.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A popular 19th-century natural landmark is now hidden within a sprawling forest.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Enjoy egg rolls and live music in a converted bank vault.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.