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A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.