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This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

Wander among the gravestones in this historic border town.

A Buddhist monastery tucked away in the mountains of Colorado.

In one man's basement, the world's largest collection of Kansas City Chiefs memorabilia is on display.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

Kansas's Grassroots Art Capital welcomes visitors to Lucas through its very own World's Largest Thing.

The first mountain submarine had its initial and last voyage in 1898.

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.

A boulder so big and tough, they had to turn it into a landmark.

These springs were once the source of a tourism boom to Sulphur Springs.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

A Colorado store that specializes in all things spiritual, metaphysical, and witchy.

Six separate cemeteries became one, on the grounds of a former schoolhouse.

Amtrak's least-used stop in the entire country sits in a tiny West Texas town.

A plaque recognizes "unquestionably the most widely published photograph in rural electrification history."

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

Hundreds of graffiti artists have decorated this flood-wall on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

This rural roadside cross marks the farthest point of Coronado's expedition, and the place where the Catholic faith first came to America.

A 200-year-old live oak on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.