The 55 Liberty Bells the Government Forgot (And the Obsessive Hunters Who Found Them All)
In 1950, the U.S. Treasury ordered 55 bronze Liberty Bell replicas and shipped them to every state capital. Decades later, a quiet community of obsessive hunters is tracking them down—not as monuments, but as physical memes of a manufactured American identity. This is the story of the government’s forgotten treasure hunt, and the people who turned it into a secular pilgrimage.