Mérida, Mexico
Cenote Xlacah
One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.
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Mérida, Mexico
One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.
Tlalnepantla, Mexico
A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.
Cozumel, Mexico
The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.
Los Angeles, California
This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.
Los Angeles, California
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
El Paso, Texas
The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.
El Paso, Texas
Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
Phoenix, Arizona
This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.
New Canaan, Connecticut
Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
Hartford, Connecticut
An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Bucksport, Maine
Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.
Scarborough, Maine
This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.
Ellsworth, Maine
This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.