Houston, Texas
Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
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Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Houston, Texas
This small park features a monumental fountain wall, providing a great photo opportunity in the middle of Houston.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Chester, West Virginia
First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.
Wheeling, West Virginia
This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.
Avella, Pennsylvania
This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.
South Park Township, Pennsylvania
One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.
West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.
Oakland, California
Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.
Hillsborough, California
A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
Palo Alto, California
This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.
Palo Alto, California
The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.
Goldfield, Nevada
One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.
Goldfield, Nevada
This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.
Murphys, California
A popular tourist cave with a dark past.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Bridgeport, California
Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.