High Point, North Carolina
High Point Chest of Drawers
A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.
Places I've been
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High Point, North Carolina
A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.
Asheville, North Carolina
Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.
Homewood, Illinois
The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.
Des Plaines, Illinois
Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Chicago, Illinois
First planned industrial community in the United States.
St. Louis, Missouri
This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.
Baltimore, Maryland
Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.
Asheville, North Carolina
This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Columbia, South Carolina
The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.
Amboy, California
A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.
Oro Grande, California
Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
Jackson, Mississippi
Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Amboy, California
The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.
Meridian, Mississippi
The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.
Sanford, North Carolina
An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.
Beech Mountain, North Carolina
A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.