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Melpha

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I live in a home where the motto is "we've driven farther for stupider". That pretty much covers it!

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A bear in a top hat.

Dover, New Hampshire

Woodman Institute Museum

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

Graves of Karen and Anethe Christensen

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Graves of the Smuttynose Murder Victims

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

Clark's Trading Post

Lincoln, New Hampshire

Clark's Trading Post

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Close up of some of the crowded and near-illegible accusation

Milford, New Hampshire

Caroline Cutter Headstone

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

Gould House, where the small Monson museum is

Milford, New Hampshire

Monson, New Hampshire

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

Madison Boulder Natural Area in Madison, New Hampshire, USA

Madison, New Hampshire

Madison Boulder

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

The gorilla house from Benson's Wild Animal Farm

Hudson, New Hampshire

Benson's Park

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Andres Institute of Art and Sculpture Garden

Brookline, New Hampshire

Andres Institute of Art and Sculpture Garden

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge

Salem, New Hampshire

Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Madame Sherri's Castle

Chesterfield, New Hampshire

Madame Sherri's Castle

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Milford Irish Round Tower.

Milford, Massachusetts

Milford Irish Round Tower

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

The James A. Garfield Memorial

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

James A. Garfield's Memorial and Tomb

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

Spring Grove Cemetery

Cincinnati, Ohio

Spring Grove Cemetery

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

An aerial view of Serpent Mound in the fall.

Peebles, Ohio

The Great Serpent Mound

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

"The Angel of Death Victorious" also known as the "Haserot Angel" in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, 10/15/2021

Cleveland, Ohio

The Haserot Angel

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Big Ole

Alexandria, Minnesota

Big Ole

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

(Flickr/Trip Deezil)

Alexandria, Minnesota

Kensington Runestone

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

Jolly Green Giant Statue

Blue Earth, Minnesota

Jolly Green Giant Statue

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

"Other Arts Follow" (Agricultural panel)

Ames, Iowa

Grant Wood Murals

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

The Evel Knievel Museum at Historic Harley Davidson.
Permanently Closed

Topeka, Kansas

Evel Knievel Museum

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

John Brown's Fort as it appears today

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

John Brown's Fort

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

Grave Creek Mound

Moundsville, West Virginia

Grave Creek Mound

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

True Treats

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

True Treats

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

TNT igloo hidden by overgrowth.

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

TNT Area

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

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