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Opened as part of the New Deal, the training facility now features World War II-era structures and a pylon that once stood at the World Trade Center.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

A Community Cornerstone.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."