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This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

Profile of a sleeping person four kilometers long in 250-meter-high cliffs.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

It's home to the antenna that received the first images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A tiny replica of the iconic London landmark hides on the side of the steel structure.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

Half-hidden by grassy slopes, this striking Spanish colonial fort is now a museum of underwater archaeology.