New Portland, Maine
Wire Bridge
This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.
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New Portland, Maine
This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Brandon, Iowa
The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Newtown, Connecticut
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Buffalo, New York
The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.
Carrabelle, Florida
This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.
Kissimmee, Florida
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.
Longwood, Florida
The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."
Gainesville, Florida
This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.