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This is the spot where the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War may have started.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

A film center envisioned to rival Cannes ended up as a haunted place after at least 168 people were killed during the rushed construction.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

The historic cave is both a symbol of superstition and black magic and inspired one of the early Christian converts in Botswana.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.

On the grounds of a hospital in Ghana, a legendary sword said to have been plunged into the earth hundreds of years ago.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.