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Sputnik crash site marker

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Sputnik IV Crash Site

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Lake Michigan's Bermuda Triangle

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Lake Michigan Triangle

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

The Tridge

Midland, Michigan

The Tridge

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

Roycroft Town Hall.

East Aurora, New York

Roycroft Campus

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

Glove of Padre Pio

New York, New York

Padre Pio Shrine

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Cathedral Falls

Gauley Bridge, West Virginia

Cathedral Falls

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

George Jones and Tammy Wynette
Permanently Closed

Louisa, Kentucky

Kentucky Country Music Museum

While filling up your gas tank in eastern Kentucky, you just might stumble into this collection of country music memorabilia.

Fleetwood Church

Brandy Station, Virginia

Fleetwood Church

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

Graffiti House

Brandy Station, Virginia

Graffiti House

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

Abandoned Henry River Mill Village

Hildebran, North Carolina

Abandoned Henry River Mill Village

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Doc's Griffin, Georgia grave?

Griffin, Georgia

Doc Holliday's Grave in Griffin

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Montgomery, Alabama

National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The Fitzgeralds' Gravesite

Rockville, Maryland

The Fitzgeralds' Gravesite

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The statue seen from the banks of the river.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg's Mini Statue of Liberty

A local prank turned town icon.

John W. Jones Museum

Elmira, New York

John W. Jones Museum

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

The central administration building

Fergus Falls, Minnesota

Fergus Falls State Hospital

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

Ida Grove.

Ida Grove, Iowa

Castles of Ida Grove

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

The world's largest popcorn ball. (The Popcorn Factory)

Sac City, Iowa

World's Largest Popcorn Ball

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

Mount Horeb Trollway

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin

Mount Horeb Trollway

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Mars Cheese Castle

Kenosha, Wisconsin

Mars Cheese Castle

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Garden Santa Fe.

Mexico City, Mexico

Garden Santa Fe

The underground mall's skylights look like they could be part of a spaceship.

Studebaker National Museum

South Bend, Indiana

Studebaker National Museum

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

Mr. Rogers' grave, Unity Cemetery

Latrobe, Pennsylvania

The Grave of Mister Rogers

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The Igloo Soft Freeze

Everett, Pennsylvania

The Igloo Soft Freeze

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

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