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A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

A steel skeleton is all that exists of what is supposed to be a replica of Noah's Ark

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

This sign marks the start and end of Matt Green's nearly 10,000-mile quest to walk every block of every street in New York City.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

A stunning modern interpretation of a Roman temple.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

A nondescript building is home to a one-room museum filled with an overwhelming array of art and objects.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

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

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

Hiding in plane sight.