A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

One of the oldest of its kind.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.