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One of the best views of the city is tucked away at the top of a water tower.

Cape Cod’s historic beacon made famous on a potato chip bag.

The aviator lived here from 1924 until she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane in 1928.

Historic house still contains bullet holes from an overlooked battle of the American Revolution.

This faux Greek Revival mansion is a clever optical illusion tucked into a Beacon Hill alley.

The country’s largest collection of southwestern jewelry, along with contemporary Native American art.

A bronze tribute to Mika Häkkinen's 1998 Monaco victory.

Three wooden middle fingers raised in protest.

The world’s first museum dedicated solely to electric vehicles.

This oldest brewery in the U.S. has lived through fire, Prohibition, and six generations of family ownership.

This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

100 years of rolling bus history and Hollywood cameos.

A perfectly crafted Pre-Columbian artifact dating back to 600 CE.

More than 100 steam and diesel locomotives bring Colorado’s rail heritage to life.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum showcases fabric and mixed media work by artists of great international renown as well as local and outsider artists.

The largest memorial to the Armenian Genocide in the United States.