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Don't bother sending any mail to this ghost town.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

Memorial dedicated to four citizens killed during a shooting spree prompted by a routine traffic stop.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

The smallest Mexican land grant in California was given, and then taken from, a 19th-century teacher and nurse.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.

Home of the golf club used by Alan Shepard on the moon, and more artifacts from the sport's history.

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

A eclectic collection of military memorabilia.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

The cremains of those who donated their bodies to science are buried in a tiny cemetery behind the building.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.