This is a fruit of American sweetgum (liquidambar styraciflua). It's a dull brown color but caught my eye with its unique shape. In contrast, the sweetgum autumn leaves are so colorful (2nd and subsequent photo)! Their maple-shaped leaves are green, yellow, orange, red and deep purple.
The leaf shape of sweetgum resembles that of maple, but the sweetgum isn't in the Acer (i.e., maple) genus but in the Liquidambar genus.
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