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A 50-foot-tall replica of the infamous lamp from 'A Christmas Story' illuminates this small town.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

A wonderland of caves in eastern Iowa.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

A museum and gift shop in a small Illinois town commemorates the work of E.C. Segar and the local figures on whom he based his characters.

The Reagan Peace Garden at Eureka College features a chunk of the Berlin Wall.

This colorful monument commemorates a little-known story from the life of Abraham Lincoln.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

This ledge in Victoria Park served as a hiding spot for Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin.

A former drinking water storage reservoir transformed into a sunken garden.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

Hidden within Sydney’s lush Royal Botanic Garden is a walled cactus rockery and the site of Australia's first zoo.

The first military newspaper in U.S. history was printed in Bloomfield, Missouri.

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.

The only mill in the state that features a covered bridge.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

Often referred to as the largest spring in America.