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An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

Mine your own precious stones.

This pop-culture shop also offers the chance to become part of their favorite tv show or movie.

A volcanic core jutting above the plain between the Snake and Boise Rivers, a marker identifies the reference point for all U.S. Government Surveys in Idaho.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.