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Lucy the Elephant
1881
Margate City, New Jersey
Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A developer built a six-storey elephant out of a million pieces of wood and a skin of tin to draw buyers to his beach lots, with a staircase up through one leg and a howdah on top to see the ocean from. It is the oldest surviving roadside attraction in America, has been a tavern and a house, was nearly demolished, was towed two blocks to safety, and is now a museum you climb inside.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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