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Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on April 22nd, 2007

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The Teapot Dome scandal rocked the presidency of Warren G. Harding and sent his interior secretary to prison.

And what better way to commemorate it than with this oddly cheery building, which served as a full-service gas station in 1922?

Ask the government — it's now on the National Register of Historic Places.