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These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

What was meant as an innocent piece of art has earned a reputation as the "mansplaining sculpture."

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.