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The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

The elevator that makes it possible to fly American flags in bulk over the U.S. Capitol

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

There's an old indoor swimming pool hidden directly underneath the White House Press Briefing Room.

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