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This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

When this 160-year-old church was being built, a stonemason included a hidden homage to his late daughter.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

This marker at the entrance to the Humphreys Engineer Center honors the former Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers.

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

A 1930’s courtroom where John Dillinger and his gang went before a judge.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

One of the Treasury Building's original columns now sits as a garden monument in the middle of a busy military base.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This museum is dedicated to the workers that help keep the power on.

Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

This labyrinth was designed to help visitors focus and meditate.

It takes a nine-mile hike to reach these hot springs, but weary hikers are rewarded with stunning views and a warm soak.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.