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Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

The scattered debris of a T-33 Canadian naval jet crash from 1963 now stands as a memorial.

An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

The remains of the worst military aviation accident in Canada's history.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world spans 14 lanes of traffic and six rail tracks, all while lighting up the night sky.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.