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Stock up on superb sour cherry preserves made by hand in copper kettles.

Ernest Hemingway used to frequent this general store, which appears in several of his short stories.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

The oldest continuously inhabited private home in the United States.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

This Cleveland mansion has played host to a German singing group, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, a funeral parlor, and many civil rights meetings.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

The remnants of a 1970 plane crash remain high in the Rocky Mountains.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.