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This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

This reconstructed Norman castle is the world's most accurate, from location to livestock.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

Some believe Ponce de León's mystical spring lurks right under a public drinking fountain.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.