Picher, Oklahoma
Picher
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
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Picher, Oklahoma
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
Bentonville, Arkansas
A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Knob Noster, Missouri
The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.
Mansfield, Missouri
Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.
Benson, Arizona
Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.
Atlanta, Georgia
A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.
Shelburne, Vermont
A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
Brooklyn, New York
A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.
Brooklyn, New York
A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Brooklyn, New York
New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.
Brooklyn, New York
This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.
Elberton, Georgia
Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.
New York, New York
The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.
New York, New York
Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."
New York, New York
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
Brooklyn, New York
Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Alto, Georgia
Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.
Payson, Arizona
This small memorial is dedicated to the Perryville State Prison firefighters who perished fighting the Dude Fire in 1990.