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A hangar at Marathon Key’s airport is now an ode to aviation history.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A small museum celebrating the life of the first Black four-star general in Air Force history.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

The van that carried William Least-Heat Moon through the journey documented in the book 'Blue Highways' sits in the Mizzou archeological museum's storage.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.