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Tulelake, CA
A loop trail crosses the lava landscape used by Kintpuash and Modoc defenders during the 1872–73 Modoc War. The site should be approached as a serious Indigenous and military-history landscape.
Huntsville, TX
The state's prison cemetery, sometimes called Peckerwood Hill, holds thousands of inmates who died in Texas custody and were unclaimed by family.
Washington, NH
After Captain Samuel Jones lost a leg to amputation in 1804, the severed limb reportedly received its own funeral and burial while Jones himself lived for years afterward. A marker preserves the bizarre story in Washington's cemetery landscape. It is one of the state's clearest examples of a literal grave for only part of a person.
Nashville, TN
Sea captain William Driver, credited with popularizing the nickname 'Old Glory' for the U.S. flag, is buried in Nashville City Cemetery. The grave provides a physical endpoint to an odd linguistic story that became national symbolism.
Cooperstown, NY
The Cardiff Giant was a ten-foot stone figure secretly manufactured and buried before being "discovered" in 1869 and promoted as a petrified prehistoric man. One of America's most famous nineteenth-century hoaxes survives today inside The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown.
Newport, RI
This sprawling French Renaissance-style mansion became Collinwood, the exterior of the haunted family estate in the cult television series "Dark Shadows." The building is part of a private property and is not a casual walk-in attraction. View only from lawful public areas and do not enter the grounds without permission.
Caribou, CO
Ruins and scattered remains mark the high-country silver town west of Nederland. The surrounding landscape mixes public land with private parcels and old mine hazards, so this is a stay-on-road/trail location rather than a structure-exploration stop.
South Pass City, WY
The restored gold mine above South Pass City preserves hoisting, milling and mining infrastructure from the district's boom years.
Carlisle, KY
The restored old Nicholas County jail retains a basement dungeon with stone foundations, earthen flooring and graffiti left by prisoners. Local tourism groups have also used the exceptionally grim cells as a seasonal haunted attraction, and visits outside events should be arranged rather than assumed.
Washington, DC
D.C.'s former central Carnegie Library survives as a Beaux-Arts landmark repurposed for retail, exhibitions, and local history.
Milford, NH
Caroline Cutter's gravestone carries an exceptionally long inscription placed there by her husband, who used the monument to accuse Baptist ministers and churches of contributing to her death. The result reads less like a conventional epitaph and more like a permanent public grievance carved into stone. It is located in Milford Cemetery.
Tabernacle Township, NJ
Deep in Wharton State Forest, a stone monument marks the 1928 crash site of Mexican aviation hero Emilio Carranza. The roughly 12-foot memorial incorporates an Aztec-inspired design and a falling eagle, turning a remote Pine Barrens clearing into an international aviation memorial.
Carrara, NV
Scattered foundations and remnants mark a short-lived marble-company town that once had a railroad spur, hotel, and planned desert community.
Rankin, PA
Carrie Furnaces 6 and 7 are surviving pieces of the enormous Homestead Works steel complex that once dominated the Monongahela Valley. Rivers of Steel preserves the furnaces and offers scheduled industrial-history tours, but visitors cannot freely enter the site outside authorized programs.
Carroll, IA
A restored railroad depot preserves passenger-era architecture and artifacts from the lines that helped build western Iowa towns. The historic platform and trackside setting make it more tangible than a conventional local museum.
Medicine Lodge, KS
The preserved home of temperance activist Carry A. Nation sits beside the Stockade Museum complex. Nation became nationally famous for smashing saloons with a hatchet, giving the modest house an unusually vivid connection to American protest history.
Stovall, MS
One of Mississippi's largest archaeological complexes, once containing seven large mounds, dozens of smaller mounds and an earthen enclosure extending nearly a mile. The surviving mounds are on private property and are a view-only stop.
Wakefield, RI
Hidden in brush near Tower Hill Road, this tall granite monument is covered with an unusually long inscription recounting an eighteenth-century murder involving William Jackson and sea captain Thomas Carter. The monument was erected more than a century after the event by eccentric spiritualist Joseph Peace Hazard. It stands close to a busy roadway, so approach only from a safe lawful area.
Rolling Fork, MS
Two earthen mounds separated by a plaza survive north of Rolling Fork, representing a community that flourished roughly a thousand years ago. The site is private; use the public roadway/marker and do not cross onto the property.
Cary, MS
A Delta mound site associated with Native American settlement in the lower Yazoo Basin. The archaeological remains are privately held, making the Mississippi Mound Trail marker and lawful public-road view the appropriate way to visit.
Coolidge, AZ
The enormous four-story Great House and surrounding compound were built by Ancestral Sonoran Desert people centuries before modern Arizona. A protective steel canopy now creates an unusual architectural shell over the ancient earthen structure.
Springerville, AZ
A hilltop archaeological site preserves pueblo rooms, a Great Kiva, solar-calendar features and an unusual basalt staircase. Access is controlled through the Springerville Heritage Center and guided-tour program.
Nageezi, NM
This massive isolated great kiva is one of Chaco Canyon's most striking ceremonial structures. Visitors approach on designated paths and should not enter restricted archaeological areas.
Galena, IL
A Mississippi River bluff preserve containing Native American burial mounds, including a rare thunderbird-shaped effigy mound.
