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A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

Once the center of a thriving early Black community called Martinsburg.

The hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.

Historic barracks utilized during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

A local prank turned town icon.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

America's oldest drive-in movie theater has been in continuous operation since 1934.

The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.

In the middle of Calvary Cemetery stands this singular memorial to a small boy who died too young.

Surrounded by industrial sprawl, a small monument marks the site of William Penn's first landing in Pennsylvania.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

A six-person chapel in the middle of Alberta's badlands.