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Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.

Pickles belong on pizza and this freewheeling outpost proves it.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

Huts like this were once a hub for the female divers who collected pearls and seafood off Japan's coasts.

An exotic jungle hideaway run entirely by indigenous Kichwa women.

This life-sized effigy commemorates the dedicated abolitionist and social reformer.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

The oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada runs along this heritage railway.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

After it was swallowed by a Georgian mansion, this medieval castle remained forgotten for centuries.

America's first public mental health facility.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.