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This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

From printing money to live music, this Beaux-Arts style building has had many identities over the last century.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

Within the church are the relics of the martyrs St. Jean de Brébeuf, St. Gabriel Lalemant, and St. Charles Garnier.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.