Lakehurst, New Jersey
Hindenburg Crash Site
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
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Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Dawson, Pennsylvania
A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.
Dearborn, Michigan
A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.
Chicago, Illinois
A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Charleston, Illinois
The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.
Chicago, Illinois
A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.
Chicago, Illinois
An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Rudolph, Wisconsin
Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
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.
Bedford, Indiana
The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.
Adams, Tennessee
Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.
Chicago, Illinois
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
Quarry Township, Illinois
A blufftop prairie and limestone cliff with 30-mile views across two great rivers and prime bald eagle territory.
Florissant, Missouri
A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.
Nazca, Peru
This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.
Nazca, Peru
Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.
Nazca, Peru
This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.