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Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

The ruins of this once gorgeous medieval church are still standing, despite the region's constant flooding.

A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

The first privately owned air raid shelter in Britain, built after a horrifying night of Zeppelin bombings.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.