Preservation usually means repair. These four survive on the opposite decision: a mall built up and over the temple it was sitting on, a film set the Park Service never struck, an eighteenth-century house left with its render coming off, and a Volvo that stayed on the island a man dug around it.
A Roman temple left in place under a shopping mall
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A 2003 film set the Park Service decided to just leave standing
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Preserved, deliberately not restored — the stucco is still coming off the 1757 brick
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