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A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.