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Olympic champion Jesse Owens

Cleveland, Ohio

Jesse Owens Statue

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

Steamship William G. Mather

Cleveland, Ohio

Steamship William G. Mather

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

Grayscale of temple exterior.

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit Masonic Temple

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

Michigan Central Station

Detroit, Michigan

Michigan Central Station

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Geodesic Dome House

Detroit, Michigan

Geodesic Dome House

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

Polar Bears Memorial

Troy, Michigan

Polar Bears Memorial

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.

Hunter House Hamburgers

Birmingham, Michigan

Hunter House Hamburgers

Classic burger joint that’s been serving up sliders since 1952.

A motorcade drives past the Uniroyal Giant Tire.

Allen Park, Michigan

Uniroyal Giant Tire

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The ornament collection spans decades.

Dearborn, Michigan

The Hallmark Collection at the Henry Ford Museum

A comprehensive archive of Hallmark Holiday ornaments.

The roundhouse at Greenfield Village.

Dearborn, Michigan

The Roundhouse at Greenfield Village

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

Owl Night Lunch Wagon

Dearborn, Michigan

Owl Night Lunch Wagon

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

Dymaxion House

Dearborn, Michigan

Dymaxion House

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A rusty ship sits on a grassy riverbank.

Lorain, Ohio

Black River Ghost Ship

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

Bullet Hole

Kent, Ohio

Site of Kent State Shootings

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

A map at the Visitors Center lays out student protests across the USA in 1970.

Kent, Ohio

Kent State May 4 Visitors Center

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

Gibson-Todd House

Charles Town, West Virginia

Gibson-Todd House

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

"Triage"

Frederick, Maryland

National Museum of Civil War Medicine

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Guess the Greyhound

Frederick, Maryland

Guess the Greyhound

According to local history, this cast-iron canine was nearly melted down for bullets during the Civil War.

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.

The monument overlooks the potomac river, where the first steamboat sailed

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Birthplace of the Steamboat

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Ruins next to the monument

Jefferson, Maryland

War Correspondents Memorial

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

The shape has been compared to that of a milk bottle.

Middletown, Maryland

The (First) Washington Monument

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

Buried beneath the museum

New Haven, Connecticut

John Trumbull's Grave

An artist of the American Revolution is entombed beneath the Yale art gallery he founded.

Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

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