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From Fort Sumter to Ellis Island, a Photo Tour of America's Closed National Monuments

From Fort Sumter to Ellis Island, photos are pouring in of America's shuttered national monuments.
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Well we didn't have to wait long to see the effects of the government shutdown. The Census Bureau's website is down, as is NASA's, and America's national parks and monuments are closed. Below, a tour of all the different signs popping up today telling people to go away.

Here's Fort Sumter in South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.