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A rich collection honors the iconic American artist, down to the jacket worn in his “Freedom of Speech” painting.

An engraved granite slab claims to mark the location where Leif Erikson built his house in the year 1000.

Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.

A rock and sand industrial site returns to its natural habitat.

A 1926 cow tunnel that passes underneath the nation’s longest road.

Collection of over 1,000 rare and vintage bicycles.

Site of the first World Series

This museum shaped like an inflating balloon celebrates the sport’s buoyant achievements.

The home of the founder of American landscape architecture puts his principles into practice.

A unique subway station where pillars evoke ancient civilizations.

At the birthplace of American railroading, a world-class collection of historic trains.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.

This swanky speakeasy is Denver’s oldest bar—and hasn’t changed a bit since 1933.

These public toilets also provide entertainment for visitors to Amsterdam’s Red Light District.

This interactive museum is dedicated to the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and founder of one of the nation’s earliest boomtowns.

Commercial aircraft storage facility, where you can see a TWA 747.

The former headquarters for Whitey Bulger and the notorious Winter Hill Gang.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

An old locomotive hides deep in the forest.

The final resting place for an internet icon.

In addition to what was once the world’s largest single-loom carpet, this charming space contains a pair of unique flags in American history.