We told you Eastport was the easternmost city in America. Eleven miles south, Lubec has the actual easternmost point — and a lighthouse, a bridge to Canada, and a marathon that crosses the border on foot.

A Colorado mining town at 9,318 feet, where the EPA accidentally caused a 3-million-gallon mine spill in 2015 — and the town that depends on tourists asked the federal government in anyway.

The loneliest town on the loneliest road in America — a Nevada silver camp that went from nine thousand people to under four hundred and kept every building standing anyway.

John Brown seized a federal armory here in 1859, hoping to end slavery by force. Eighteen months later, the Civil War began. The rivers and the rocks are exactly where he left them.

A Texas border town where families live on both sides of the Rio Grande, and people have farmed the same bend in the river for thirty-five hundred years.

A Florida doctor invented mechanical refrigeration here while treating yellow fever patients — and the town's oyster bay, closed for years, is finally coming back.

An introduction to Pull Over: thirty small towns, two to three minutes each, no characters, no plot. Just a narrator and a reason to stop. Episode One begins in Galena, Illinois.

In the 1840s, one small Illinois town produced eighty percent of the nation's lead — and later became the home Ulysses S. Grant returned to after the Civil War. Population 3,207. Worth the detour.