Atchison, Kansas
Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.
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Atchison, Kansas
The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.
Atchison, Kansas
The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.
Wamego, Kansas
During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.
Balmorhea, Texas
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.
Kirksville, Missouri
Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.
San Marcos, Texas
In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.
Wamego, Kansas
A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Washington, D.C.
America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
Camden, Tennessee
An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.
Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.
Kansas City, Missouri
This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.
Marble Falls Township, Texas
Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.
Gurdon, Arkansas
A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.
Toomsuba, Mississippi
This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.
Littlefield, Arizona
An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.
St. Louis, Missouri
An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.
Central City, Colorado
This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.
Austin, Texas
Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."
Kentwood, Louisiana
A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.
San Antonio, Texas
The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.