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This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.