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This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This American Civil War-era fort still stands near the border between Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

This small museum is dedicated to telling the 4,000-year story of Palestinian history, culture, and resistance.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.