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This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.