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This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

America's first federal monument.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

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

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

An original apothecary from 1792.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Historic barracks utilized during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

Just outside the Naval Academy, Hell Point is a historical marker that could easily be the point where failed students wait for the bus.