The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (Dallas, Texas)
Look out the window where Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot JFK. See the Grassy Knoll. And all that good awful stuff.
The Sixth Floor Museum
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Alexander Hamilton Death Rock
Alexander Hamilton Death Rock (Weehawken, New Jersey)
From Roadside America: “Near a picturesque cliff along the Hudson River, overlooking the island of Manhattan, Aaron Burr did battle with Alexander Hamilton. The date was July 12, 1804. The actual rock ‘on which rested the head of Alexander Hamilton’ after he was mortally wounded is the base of the monument. Turned out that while Hamilton was (as noted on the stone) a ‘Patriot, Soldier, Statesman, and Jurist,’ Burr was a guy from Newark with more pistol practice. Perched atop the Rock of Death is, appropriately, a bronze head of Alexander Hamilton.”
Henry Ford Museum
Henry Ford Museum (Dearborn, Michigan)
Who would have guessed that the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan would be the home of such incredible morbid goodies as the chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre, the limousine that JFK was riding in when he was assassinated in Dallas, and Thomas Edison’s last breath? Certainly not I, but it’s now on my “Must Visit” list! (Thanks to Scott for the suggestion.)
Abraham Lincoln’s Tomb
Abraham Lincoln’s Tomb (Springfield, Illinois)
Ol’ Honest Abe is buried in a huge monument in Oak Ridge Cemetery.