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A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

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

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.