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Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.