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The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

A diorama lover's dream world.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

A military vehicle collection, showcasing how war transportation advanced from horse drawn artillery to self propelled cannons.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.