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One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Tile mosaics and quotes from Pablo Picasso add an artistic flair to these bus stop benches.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

This eclectic collection documents the wild legacies of "America's Wickedest Street."

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.