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This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

The place where World War I began.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.