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The ruins of a burned-down monastery have become a serene park and community space. 

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

This simple stone monument honors a 19th-century tragedy.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.