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• Oroville, California - Bolt's Antique Tool Museum
  

  The largest hand tool museum in the U.S., a collection of over 13,000 assembled by Bud Bolt over 50 years, all carefully labeled. An entire wall of monkey wrenches.

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  Address:

  

  1650 Broderick St., Oroville, CA

  Directions:

  Hwy 70 exit east on Montgomery St., left on 1st Avenue, right on Broderick St.

  Hours:

  M-Sa 10-3:45 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.

  Phone:

  530-538-2528

  Admission:

  Adults $3.

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• Washington, DC - Parking Deck Leg of Col. Dahlgren
  

  An amputated leg, a grief-stricken admiral, a parking garage. Ingredients for one of the more peculiar commemorative markers in DC.

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  Isaac Hull Ave., Washington, DC

  Directions:

  From M St. SE turn south onto Isaac Hull Ave., which is between 5th St. SE and 7th St. SE. Enter the Washington Navy Yard (photo ID required at gate). Drive south two blocks. You'll see the NavSea parking garage on the left; the plaque is on the outside wall, next to the south entrance.

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• Tunnel Hill, Georgia - Leg of the Gallant Hood
  

  Blown off during the Battle of Chickamauga on Sep. 20, 1863. It was carried around with General Hood for a few days, then buried here, under a little tombstone.

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  Clisby Austin Drive, Tunnel Hill, GA

  Directions:

  I-75 exit 345. Drive south on US Hwy 41 for four miles. Turn left immediate after the bridge over the train tracks onto Oak St. When it veers left, stay straight onto Clisby Austin Drive. Continue one-third of a mile, past the museum and across the little one-way bridge. You'll see a parking lot off to the left. Park there, then walk back, cross Clisby Austin Drive, and walk down a little gravel driveway marked "Clisby Austin House." You'll see the little tombstone on the left, in the trees, by the mailboxes.

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  Frederick, Maryland - National Museum of Civil War Medicine
  

  This museum has much to recommend, including amputations, embalming, a mummified human arm, and ghosts.

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  48 E. Patrick St., Frederick, MD

  Directions:

  Downtown. I-70 exit 56. Drive west into town on Hwy 144/E. Patrick St. The museum will be on the left (south) side, a block past the stoplight at Carroll St. Just past the museum is the entrance to the downtown parking garage.

  Hours:

  M-Sa 10-4:15, Su 11-4:15 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.

  Phone:

  301-695-1864

  Admission:

  Adults $9.50

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  Silver Spring, Maryland - National Museum of Health and Medicine
  

  A great medical museum of arcane specimens. Where else can you see the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and a human hairball? Nowhere else, that's where.

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  Address:

  

  2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD

  Directions:

  South of I-495 Beltway, exit 31 south onto Hwy 97, turn right/west onto Seminary Rd, which becomes Linden Lane. Turn left into US Army Forest Glen Annex.

  Hours:

  Daily 10-5:30 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.

  Phone:

  301-319-3300

  Admission:

  Free, donations welcome.

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