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The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.

This hotel was used during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors.

The world's largest version of this iconic puzzle cube is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

The statue mysteriously lost its head and left hand.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

America's first federal monument.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.