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Navajo burial ground

12 trillion tons of reinforced concrete and steel

Hard drugs

Government-protected wetlands

Your hard-earned tax dollars, folks. Your tax dollars

Drunken dare

Water-logged corpses of Irish immigrants

Previous bizarro underground version of this city

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