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These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

Although outnumbered, the Tecumseh Confederacy defeated a large regiment of United States troops.

The Chinese have long been excellent at the art of copying, but this epic replica takes the biscuit.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

This church doubles a museum dedicated to Norwegian heritage.

The abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium is said to be one of the most haunted places in Canada.

Dedicated to the inventor of the paint roller.

Built after the 1991 discovery of one of the world's most complete T.rex skeletons in the nearby hills.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

Commemorating the lives of a renowned humorist and a famed aviator who died in a plane crash in northern Alaska.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

The ruins of a failed dam that was built over land later described as a "sponge."

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.