The Strand Bookstore
Used bookstores – and brick and mortar bookstores in general – are something of an endangered species. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the number…
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Petty and Gus Gus Beaching It
This is Peety, he is a rescue mutt but the cutest and funniest mutt you ever did see. Peety’s sidekick is Gus Gus, a hedgehog.…
Eartha, the World’s Largest Globe – Yarmouth, ME
Eartha, the world’s largest revolving and rotating globe, is in Yarmouth, Maine. It was built in 1998, in the headquarters of the DeLorme Mapping Corporation.…
Middleton Colony – Middleton, MA
In 1902, the patient population at Danvers State Hospital had grown too large for the facilities to support. They purchased 100 acres near the border…
Forbes Hill Standpipe – Quincy, MA
The Forbes Hill Standpipe is a historic water tower in Quincy, Massachusetts. It was built using Quincy granite between 1900 and 1902 to contain a…
Loew’s Jersey Theatre – Jersey City, NJ
The 3,300 seat Loew’s Jersey Theatre opened on September 28, 1929 in Jersey City, NJ and was designed by the architectural firm of Rapp and…
The Ukranian Museum
The Ukranian Museum in New York City was founded in 1976 and is currently the largest museum in the United States devoted to showcasing the…
McSorley’s Old Ale House
It’s rare to find any place that truly feels like a portal to another time period, let alone in New York City, where years of…
Androscoggin Swinging Bridge – Brunswick, ME
Construction began on the Androscoggin Swinging Bridge on May 19, 1892. It was built above the Androscoggin River in between Brunswick and Topsham, Maine, to…
Doubling Point Lighthouse – Arrowsic Island, ME
The Doubling Point Lighthouse was built in 1898 on Arrowsic Island, on the Kennebec River, near Bath, Maine. The original structures included a lightkeeper’s house,…