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Jared Steed

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The 1717 Reformed Church of New Paltz.

New Paltz, New York

Huguenot Street

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Wallace Hartley's gravestone

Colne, England

Wallace Hartley's Gravestone

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

Willow Creek China Flat and Bigfoot Museum

Willow Creek, California

China Flat Museum Bigfoot Collection

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Lucky visitors to the Supreme Court play basketball.

Washington, D.C.

The Highest Court In the Land

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

The Ramble Cave

New York, New York

The Ramble Cave

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Information board added to the site by the German government in 2006

Berlin, Germany

Führerbunker Parking Lot

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

The American Merchant Mariner's Memorial

New York, New York

The American Merchant Mariner's Memorial

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Berlin Wall

Berlin, Germany

Vestiges of the Berlin Wall

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

John Brown's Fort as it appears today

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

John Brown's Fort

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A portion of Hospital Rock

Farmington, Connecticut

Hospital Rock

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

The "front out" display at Alabama Booksmith

Homewood, Alabama

Alabama Booksmith

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

Map Table in the Battle of Britain Bunker

Uxbridge, England

Battle Of Britain Bunker

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

Georg Elser Plaque

Munich, Germany

Georg Elser Plaque

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

Headstone of Henry David Thoreau

Concord, Massachusetts

Author's Ridge

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Martha, taxidermied

Washington, D.C.

Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Bunker at Cape May Point. (Andriy Boychuk)

Cape May, New Jersey

Bunker At Cape May Point

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A car mid-drive through the tree.

Leggett, California

Chandelier Tree

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The mailbox, with lots of graffiti from visitors.

Alamo, Nevada

The Black Mailbox

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Plaque that marks the former hospital

Baltimore, Maryland

Site of Edgar Allan Poe's Death

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Shark Cage Diving in Gansbaai

Gansbaai, South Africa

Shark Cage Diving in Gansbaai

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

Bridge of Spies

Berlin, Germany

Bridge of Spies

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

This section of Siberia was struck by falling meteor pieces on July 30, 1908

Evenkiysky District, Russia

Tunguska Event Epicenter

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

The rock obelisk at Rugby, North Dakota.

Rugby, North Dakota

The Geographical Center of North America

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

A close-up of the plaque on the historical marker with a plush duck. (Wikimedia Commons)

Lebanon, Kansas

Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States

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

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