Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

The whole world in one water tank.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.