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The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The man who wasn't there.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

The first space rock known to have struck a human.