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Only a few remaining items alert intrepid explorers that a town once stood in this region.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

An approximately 500 million-year-old rock outcropping covered in fossilized bacteria.

This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

A monument to an Irish secret society thought to be responsible for a string of violent attacks in Pennsylvania coal mines.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

The first documented commercial gold find in the United States.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

The walls of the statehouse tell the story of Ohio’s prehistoric past.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

A monolith replica monument of Jean Ribault commemorating the landing of the French in the New World.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

A collection of bite-sized buildings creates a magical mini village in the Pennsylvania mountains.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.

The poet Walt Whitman was a frequent visitor to this spot, the highest on Long Island.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.