Kent, Ohio
Site of Kent State Shootings
Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.
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Kent, Ohio
Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.
Waterford, Pennsylvania
The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
North Adams, Massachusetts
More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.
Somerset, Pennsylvania
This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.
Farmington, Pennsylvania
The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.
Hermitage, Pennsylvania
An American flag was erected for every day that passed during the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Titusville, Pennsylvania
Where the oil industry began.
Linesville, Pennsylvania
"Where the ducks walk on fish."
Meadville, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.
Niagara Falls, New York
Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
Public opinion is still divided on this enormous sculpture in front of Baltimore's Penn Station.
Baltimore, Maryland
This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
Fort Loudon, Pennsylvania
A pyramid commemorates the birthplace of James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States
Reading, Pennsylvania
A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Ashland, Pennsylvania
A eight-foot-tall statue resides in the heart of Pennsylvania anthracite coal country.
Shartlesville, Pennsylvania
An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."