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This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Community owned and operated, this property is home to a diverse set of nudists.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

America's first federal monument.

A big museum full of little worlds.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.