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This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.