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Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

Heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, this small town turns unexploded munitions into utensils.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

Two pillars set 10 paces apart commemorate the "last notable American duel."

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.