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Raised high above the Cimarron River, this 1,268-foot rail bridge followed a half-century of trainwrecks, bridge collapses, and an abandoned town.

The lighthouse is on a island which is connected to another island, which is connected to another island, which is connected to one of the largest islands in the world.

Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

This remote river crossing was a popular campground on American westward expansion trails, and a former Pony Express station.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

With a design inspired by traditional Latvian textiles, this monument honors the Latvian people who suffered under Soviet occupation.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

America's first National Historic Landmark is a 100-foot tall obelisk and gravesite dedicated to the only casualty of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

Exhibiting the tallest structure of its type in Nevada, this massive mining complex is frozen in time.

Northern Kentucky’s very own Notre Dame showcases intricate stained glass and the bones of saints.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.

This mangled and twisted wreckage left by the side of a Mexican road was no accident, but a planned crash in the name of science and safety.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

An exquisite monument dedicated to fallen Partisan soldiers and anti-fascist fighters of Yugoslavia through symbols of gears and flowers.

This municipal park along the Missouri River honors the galley central to the Lewis & Clark Expedition with a replica ship and sculptures.

A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.

Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.