Houston, Texas
The Donnellan Crypt
A forgotten 1800s burial vault hides in plain sight beneath a busy downtown Houston bridge.
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Houston, Texas
A forgotten 1800s burial vault hides in plain sight beneath a busy downtown Houston bridge.
Houston, Texas
A 400-year-old live oak tree with a fictitiously morbid past.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Houston, Texas
A former post office turned venue, food hall, and retail center.
San Antonio, Texas
A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.
San Antonio, Texas
Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.
Savannah, Georgia
This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.
Nashville, Tennessee
When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.
Barstow, California
Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.
Yermo, California
Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.
Baker, California
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
San Bernardino, California
A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.
San Bernardino County, California
The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.
Las Vegas, Nevada
These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Glendora, California
The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.
Pomona, California
This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.