Boston, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.
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Boston, Massachusetts
Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.
Washington, D.C.
A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.
Velarde, New Mexico
A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.
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.
Pepeekeo, Hawaii
These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.
Nashville, Tennessee
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.
Yemassee, South Carolina
Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.
Tomkins Cove, New York
Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.
Seattle, Washington
A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.
Meadville, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
Durham, North Carolina
This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.
Astoria, Oregon
A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.
Port Orchard, Washington
Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.
St. Augustine, Florida
An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.
Chicago, Illinois
A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.
New York, New York
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Mineral Wells, Texas
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Denver, Colorado
A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Lynchburg, Tennessee
All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.