Railroad Heroine, Niagara Falls Daredevil, Accidental Nuclear Bomb

Housed in a glass case at The Boone County Historical Center in Boone, Iowa is a seemingly ordinary metal and glass lantern. But this beacon of light helped guide a brave teenager through a stormy night, on a life saving mission. 

At the Daredevil Museum in Niagara Falls, New York is a huge, elaborately constructed, 12-foot barrel, built specifically for a death-defying act use in several crazed stunts. 

Among the Civil War regalia and crude surgical instruments at South Carolina's, Florence Museum, is a gnarled piece of metal linked to a disaster that nearly wiped a town, off the map.

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