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A piece of telecommunications history.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Savor the famous tempura-fried pork tenderloin sandwich at this long-standing Kansas City food counter.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

This sculpture is a cross between an observatory and an earth mound to honor the community's rich history.

The childhood home of the Wright Brothers in Dayton.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

"You can only scalp a customer once, but you can give him a haircut every two weeks"-Barber's Maxim.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

A lost cemetery stands forgotten on a hilltop, known only to the older residents of Pomeroy.

The failure of one component toppled this entire bridge during rush hour.

An abandoned munitions factory with a shot tower continues to wage war on the surrounding environment.

An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.