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A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

Hidden in the forest atop a long, winding driveway is this stately home.

In 1932, Americans honored their first president's 200th birthday by planting trees.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.

This homestead was occupied by Union soldiers, who believed the owners were signaling Confederate forces.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.