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A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

In September 1974, a small group of athletes completed the first modern triathlon event in San Diego's Mission Bay.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.