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This sculpture is a cross between an observatory and an earth mound to honor the community's rich history.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

This midcentury chapel is a bold architectural statement and a symbol of Indiana's Lutheran heritage.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This statue in Talcott, West Virginia, is an enduring symbol of American grit.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

A sacred collection of indigenous rock art.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

Known as "The Dome" this is the world's largest open air geodesic dome.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

An attractive free-plunge waterfall outside Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.