Indianapolis, Indiana
Indiana Steam Clock
At the top of the hour, this steam-powered clock's eight brass whistles play "Back Home Again in Indiana."
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Indianapolis, Indiana
At the top of the hour, this steam-powered clock's eight brass whistles play "Back Home Again in Indiana."
Chicago, Illinois
These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.
Chicago, Illinois
To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.
Murphy, North Carolina
The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Atlanta, Georgia
The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.
Sylva, North Carolina
The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.
Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Charles Town, West Virginia
This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Knoxville, Maryland
This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.
Munfordville, Kentucky
A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.
Cave City, Kentucky
One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.
Cave City, Kentucky
Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.
Cave City, Kentucky
An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.
Cave City, Kentucky
Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Magdalena, New Mexico
A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.